Quintana Roo Hospitals Working Toward License for Organ Donations Sabrina Rodriguez - Riviera Maya News
go to original September 28, 2015

Hospitals in the state of Quintana Roo are working toward becoming licensed so they can accept organ donations. Their goal is to have the certifications in place for next year.

Larger hospitals throughout the state are hoping to implement a doner transplant program that would allow the families of brain-dead patients to donate their tissue and organs. The certification would include a team of doctors who would work with families on matching doners and the types of organs needed.

Roses Mauro Cortez, state director of Transfusion Medicine of State Health Services, says that in Mexico there is a waiting list of more than 20,000 people in need of organ transplants, and that that number includes patients in Quintana Roo.

“We are working hard to become certified and licensed in this area so that people can voluntarily donate organs or tissue,” she said.

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