Sardinia is showing more and more solidarity when it comes to transplants: 2022 was the record year in Italy (+3.7% compared to 2021) and Sardinia proved to be a very virtuous region, third with an index of 66 % compared to a national average of 59%.

While in Italy there is still 30% against donations, in Sardinia the opposition rate is lower, at 22%.

All data that emerged in the Regional Council, where today the first Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplant Day was celebrated, established by a law in November 2022. Why February 24? It is the date on which in 2004 all the members of the Brotzu cardiac surgery team died in a tragic plane crash in the Sinnai mountains. They were carrying a heart destined for a life-saving transplant to be performed in Cagliari.

The director of the national transplant center Massimo Cardillo explains that «the transplant system is growing continuously. He overcame the difficulties related to Covid better than in other European countries. Also in the first months of 2023 there are comforting data with an increase in transplants of 30% compared to last year. However, we must not forget the difficulties and we must work on informing citizens and their possibility of giving their consent to organ donation when they renew their identity card".

Several certificates of "Sardinian Ambassador of the donation" were awarded to the transplanted Renata Bacchiddu, to Graziella and Gianfranco Biscu from Oliena, parents of Mathias who died at the age of 16 in a road accident, to the journalist and transplanted Francesco Abate. Acknowledgments also to the "Michele Giua" school of Assemini, to the Aido associations of Elmas, Aned Sardegna of Iglesias, Odv "Elisa Deiana" of Soleminis and to the municipalities of Nuoro, Oliena and Cardedu.

(Unioneonline/L)

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