Thanks to 39 donors – two of them foreigners – doctors were able to carry out 94 transplants in 72 hours, the National Transplant Organisation (ONT) announced on Monday.

The transplants took place on November 23rd, 24th and 25th, and involved 42 hospitals – 40 in Spain (in Andalucía, Aragón, Asturias, Cantabria, Castilla-León. Castilla-La Mancha, Catalonia, Valencia, Extremadura, Galicia, La Rioja, Madrid, Murcia and the Basque Country) and two in Portugal, with the participation of more than 1,000 medical professionals who “worked in a totally coordinated way”, the ONT said. The ONT added that it was all made possible thanks to a number of different public and private entities, including 10 airports (seven civil, two military and one international), as well as the emergency services and Civil Protection in the regions.

The ONT said only two of the donors had died in traffic accidents. The transplants were mainly of the kidney (48), liver (23) and lungs (8). The ONT said the people who benefited from them were all rated “zero urgency”, that is, they had less than 48 hours to live. The previous “transplant marathon” took place in 24 hours on March 29th, 2009, when 32 organs from 13 donors were transplanted.

Source:www.thenewsonline.es