August 17, 2018.
More and more organ donation is practiced in France. A medical feat that allows many patients to survive, especially thanks to people who can donate an organ, full or partial, during their lifetime.
6,105 transplants were performed in 2017
Organ transplants are enabling more and more people to survive. In 2017, in France, 6,105 transplants were performed in French hospitals, i.e. 3.5% more than the previous year. This figure, revealed by the Biomedicine Agency, marks a new record for this year which is also the first of the transplant plan 3, which is scheduled to end in 2021.
In details, these are 467 heart transplants, 6 cardiopulmonary transplants, 378 lung transplants, 1374 liver transplants (including 18 from a living donor), 3,782 kidney transplants (including 611 from a living donor), 96 pancreas transplants and 2 intestinal transplants, which were performed during this year.
Nearly 25,000 people are waiting for an organ transplant
In its press release, the Biomedicine Agency welcomed this progress, considering that it was only possible ” thanks to the generosity of donors, the daily mobilization of health professionals involved in the donation chain and the support of associations “. But the ambition of this whole chain does not stop there, since the objective set at the end of the five years of the transplant plan 3 is to reach 7,800 organ transplants including 1,000 from a living donor.
But these figures, although optimistic, should not hide the number of patients awaiting donation. In 2017, 23,828 people were declared waiting for an organ.
Gaelle Latour
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