This body, which answers to the Ministry of Health and Consumer Affairs, beat its own record for daily workload, set in 2006 (12 donations, 32 transplants and 21 participating hospitals), by coordinating 32 transplants from 13 multiple-organ donations, benefitting 32 patients. Two of these patients were already at emergency level 0. The transplants carried out included 20 kidney transplants, 10 liver transplants, 1 heart transplant and a double pancreas and kidney transplant.
By autonomous community, the different hospitals coordinated in the operation belonged to Andalusia (6 hospitals), Asturias (1 hospital), Balearic Islands (1 hospital), Castile and León (1 hospital), Catalonia (4 hospitals), Valencia (2 hospitals), Galicia (3 hospitals) and Madrid (5 hospitals). The Catalan hospitals involved included Hospital General de Catalunya, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Hospital Vall d’Hebron and Hospital de Bellvitge.
The operation, carried out on Saturday 28 March, mobilized more than 500 people and involved the cooperation of different public and private bodies, including 6 civilian airports, a military airport, the 112 emergency services of different autonomous communities and SUMA and the Catalan autonomous police force.
This record has once again highlighted the tremendous solidarity of Spanish society in terms of donation and transplants, and the efficacy of the current model, which has made Spain a world reference standard that is being imitated by countries such as the United Kingdom and Singapore.