BERGAMO - A special tour of Italy on a bike that will make eleven transplanted in Milan, Bergamo, Turin, Innsbruck (Austria) September 18 to 23.
A crossing in seven stages to the capital city to remind the Italians and especially to those more young people who donate organs is a great gesture of love and against the fall in transplants.
Organized by the "Friends of liver transplant, with the support of United Hospitals, the only hospital in Italy capable of performing any type of transplant (2,138 from 1985 to 2007), the fifth edition of Transplant International Marathon will 11 7 escorts also transplanted and transplanted (assisted by a team of doctors and nurses), travel 864 km to Rome.
The initiative comes after the recent "controversy" about brain death, but also as a result of a fall (for the first time in decades), bodies donated in Lombardy, estimated by 25% compared to 2007, as mentioned yesterday during the presentation of the Marathon, the provincial coordinator collection and transplantation of organs and tissues, Dr. Mariangela Cossolino: "The decline means fewer donations and transplants although Bergamo this decrease depends on cultural grounds, but the medical and clinical. " Such a notice COLLEDANI
Michele, Director and General Surgery III Liver Transplant: "not aware enough on the subject. The decline in donations mean more deaths among patients on waiting lists and waiting times that stretch, so that you get the transplant in poor condition and therefore a higher risk of complications " - Stephen and Bean, Director of Gastroenterology: "The culture of donation should never be taken for granted forever."
"In light of this - recalled Valentina Lanfranchi, vice president of the Friends of the managing director of liver transplantation Carlo Bonometti -, involve mainly the 2008 schools (as well as institutions, associations and research centers ) ".
with cyclists Bergamo Carlo Brambilla, Dante Colotti, Augusto Monti (liver transplant twice) and Renato Moretti.
The final stage will be the meeting in Rome with the director of the National Transplant Centre, Alessandro Nanni Costa.
The Marathon is a national event that, however, sees Riuniti in Bergamo and close, thanks to the recent program of intestinal multivisceral transplantation in children.
Paolo Santini
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