you remember what it was that you were
doing on July 11 , 2010
I did not follow but let’s not only know what
what am I doing but also
I know what you were doing
you were watching on TV
as the Spanish national soccer team
proclaimed champion of the world by
first time in its history
here yes here now you remember
well I know there is a man who is
thinking is not that I did not see it because to me
I do not like football you do not no
like football but here you found out
sure clear and little by little we ‘re going
remembering the details the world was
in south africa
the final we played with holland we won 1 0
goal of iniesta minute 116 when already
it looked like the game was going to end and
let’s go to the penalties and all the
world thinking as iker boxes do not
stop some
we will see to see where we finished well then
watch soccer world championships are
they celebrate every four years
the first was in 1930
Since then there have been 20 and Spain
we have won one and by the hair but in
change in the world championship of
donation and transplants that is celebrated
every year
Spain is 26 times world champion of
consecutive form
[Applause]
so congratulations because all the
that we are here are 26 times in a row
world champions and do not think that
winning 1-0 in overtime not winning
all matches of beating 5 0 10/0 and
why do I say this because it looks at the
index of donation of organs from
of people who died in Spain is the
highest in the world
to give you an idea the average of
the european union is around 21
donors per million population that is
more or less the same as the kingdom has
united australia and canada walk around
to 20 united states around thirty
donors per million population in
Spain in 2016 there were 43 donors
million population
but it is that in 2017 it increased more that
figure 46.9 donors per million
population
but the organs are donated to be
transplanted and Spain is also the
world leader in transplants since
we are the only country where there are more than 100
transplanted people per million
population well above the average of
the european union that is around 64
and also above the average of
united states that borders the 100,000
in Spain there are more than 100,000 people
who have already received the transplant of a
organ and half a million more that have
received the tissue implant and
bone marrow cornea cells from
with the umbilical cord cells
more than six hundred thousand people have
already directly benefited from the system
Spanish donation and transplants
With all this the citizens of Spain
we are lucky to be citizens
of the world that more opportunities we have
of accessing a transplant in case of
that someday we need
but you believe that this is a
question of luck
obviously no luck can
to win a match but not all
championships the extraordinary indexes
of donation and transplants of which
we enjoy in Spain are the result
of a job very well
in fact for years the formula of
Spanish success does not have any
secret ingredient but that is the
result of combining three factors
fundamentals on the one hand a system
public health service with universal access and
defrayed with our taxes where
all the people who need it
have the same opportunity to access
a transplant and where nobody can
perceive no compensation for being
donor but nobody can pay
to be transplanted in second place
an organizational system that is called
Spanish model of transplants and is the
which has shown that it offers the best
results but not only in Spain but
also in all those countries that have
adopted its measures totally or
partial and that they have seen since then
as your donation and transplant figures
They increased dramatically and
what is that Spanish model of
Transplant is the Spanish model of
transplants relies figure of
transplant coordinators and that is a
transplant coordinator
the transplant coordinators we are
nurses and doctors generally from
intensive care units that is
where donations are produced and
in addition to our usual work in the
auf and we have received training
specific to everything that has
what to do with the donation and the transplant
We are on duty 24 hours a day all
the days of the year to detect the
possible donors to interview us
with their families and offer them the
possibility of donation for
explain all the details of the
process to keep the
organs of that person who just
dying in brain death
and evaluate them exhaustively for
be sure of the quality and
security of the organs that
we transplanted but also to be
sure that we do not dismiss any
unjustifiably
we get in touch with the
national transplant organization for
tell us where are the best
receivers for each organ and we prepare
against the clock a very logistic
complicated not only in the city
where is the donor hospital but
also in the cities of the
hospitals
sectors sometimes you have to bring equipment
surgical from the other side of
Spain you have to coordinate forensic judges
ambulance taxis against the clock
it’s a very intense job but it has
the enormous reward of contributing to
make that dream come true that are
transplant in 2017
in Spain more than five have been made
thousand 200 transplants an average of 14
transplants a day that is almost
sure that now in this moment in
some city of spain is being
performing a transplant
Well, that was possible thanks to
the generosity of more than 2,100 donors
and their families that after suffering
loss of a loved one have not had
the gesture of enormous generosity of
allow their organs to be
transplanted to other people who no longer
they had no other option of
treatment that was not that of receiving
the gift of a transplant
and that is more than 87 percent of the
families in Spain say yes to the
donation in a moment emotionally
very intense
minutes after receiving the
worst possible news
well in that scenario every day a
average of six families in Spain do
possible that unknown people have
a second chance
I have commented the first two
important links of this chain
but the most important of all is the
initial link the link of the
Look donors because they are the
link that starts all this huge
chain of solidarity because it would not serve
nothing that the team had very good
organization had very good technicians
but instead if I did not have good
team players would not succeed and in
Spain we have very good players
our donors
but not only Spanish donors
set in Spain the number of donors
increases every year and with some
percentages of acceptance to the donation
which are superior to those that show
their countries of origin what comes to
demonstrate that solidarity
of nationalities but of information and
of organization and already I of small
I wanted to be a soccer player and I told him
everyone that you asked me
what do you want to be
I go soccer to my parents to my uncles
my cousins the whole world said it
but I soon realized that to be
footballer had to have some
qualities
you had to have a good condition
physical
you had to be skillful with the ball in
feet had to know how to finish head to head
I trained a lot of those things I did not have
any
so soon I forget football and
I dedicated myself to study medicine first
then he tells me a specialist in medicine
intensive and later coordinator of
Transplants in a hospital in Malaga
is where I work now although I do not know
if with this decision the medicine won
Something that is clear is that the
football did not lose anything but look at
difference of what happens to be
soccer player
to be an organ donor does not
missing anything special
it’s enough to just exercise it and say it
but I tell anyone your
family to those who will respond in
our name when you no longer
you can do it in those circumstances is
possible that someone like me gets close to
them and tell them and they know if he or she
I wanted to be a donor
if they know our will they do not go
to have no hesitation in answering but
if they do not know it they are going to have to
try to answer that question
thinking what would have been your
answer and they may not know what to say
and you get doubts so do not leave the
ball on the roof of our family and
if you have for your decision about
of the donation to communicate it and so
clear doubts and man for that
any time is good today
you can take advantage and define it to the
person with whom you have come to this
event
well yes, if it is someone important in
our life clear if it is one that you have
known this morning in the queue of
entrance is a bit hasty but yes
not tomorrow drinking coffee or food
familiar then look at the other day
I heard a talk about donation and
and the truth is that they are thinking and
I want you to know that if any family
time there is that possibility because I
I want to be an organ and tissue donor
for this reason or look no no I do not
I want to be a donor for these and others
reasons and until and it is said
and if you are watching this talk the
bibio you can take advantage now gives the
pause button and you’re going to tell him your
decision to your family but but of course
then you have to see the end again
of the talk no better than the talk until
the end and when it ends then if you
you hit the pause button and I already told you
the decision to your family
also the players have a life
very short sports if they are lucky and
they do not have serious injuries
they play until they are 35 some until they are 40
years
however there is no age limit for
be an organ donor
nobody is ever too old to be
generous
set more than half of the donors
of organs in Spain have more than 60
years
almost one third has more than 70 and 10
percent of organ donors
are older than 80 years
every year they are transplanted in Spain
and degrees of donors older than 90 years
that save life directly to the
people who receive it and also
transplant kidneys from older donors
of 80 and donor hearts and lungs
older than 70 years and in terms of
imagined versions a person of 70
years sure that throughout his life he has
had many injuries
many medical problems was hypertensive
diabetic will have had arrhythmias
infarctions in the heart
it does not matter any of those things prevents
that someone who wishes it can
become a donor
only some types of cancers very
aggressive and certain infections
make donation impossible but they are very
few in the world of football are discussed
many times also about subsidies
footballers from before were better or
worse than now and end it
you can never never agree they say
the soccer players of before were neither
better or worse than they are simply
different for the same thing happens with the
with the players not with the donors
now the ones we have now are more
before different from what there was not
so long
check donors before in Spain
20 30 years were younger people and
almost half of them had died
for a traumatic brain injury in
a traffic accident however
now more than 60 percent of the
donors have died as a consequence
of a cerebral hemorrhage and who has
cerebral hemorrhage in elderly people
with a medical history extended to the
footballers when they retire they are
usually gives a tribute match for
our players those of our team
donors also deserve the highest
the tributes the whole society we are
in debt to them because it will give some
oneself
someone who wants someone to whom
knows it means generosity but give something
of the same to someone you do not know
and will never be able to know supposes a
greater degree of generosity and
probably the greatest gesture of kindness
that one person can have for another
[Applause]
but look carefully hopefully one day
in which there is no need for more donors
that will mean that they have been discovered
the ways to prevent and treat
diseases that he lived have no other
treatment other than receiving a
organ or else that the
way to make artificial organs
or much better than the rates of
donation and transplants have increased
both in all countries that have
made the waiting lists disappear
in such a way that all the people who
they need a transplant of an organ
they can access it immediately and
in conditions of equity
then and only then will it no longer
it is necessary to beat the records again and again
of transplants increase the number of
donors or return to be champions of the
world
until that day arrives if it is that
he ever does
we will continue to need donors
that’s why friends play the game of
our life as well as we can and
when the referee blows the end
the best we can do is take ourselves
the shirt and give it to another for
that he can also play his game
thank you very much
and
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