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¿WHAT IS THE CATALAN TRANSPLANT FOUNDATION?

Dr. J. Lloveras

THE TRANSPLANT IN CATALUNYA

Catalunya has been pioneering the transplant field in the Spanish State. The first transplants of kidney (1966), liver (1984), heart (1984), pancreas (1983) and lung (1993) were made in Catalunya as well as and most of tissue transplants . The transplant programs in Catalunya have been characterized by their great activity and its high welfare quality. Catalunya has shown for fourteen years (from 1984) one of the highest rates of kidney transplant in the world (per million of population) even bigger than most of the countries with a more developed sanitary and economic system. The liver transplant program in Catalunya also has an extremely high level of the activity that locates it on top of the world-wide ranking.

Similar results are reported regarding the heart transplant activity and the remaining tissue transplant programs, those enjoy of an international prestige. This degree of effectiveness has been due to many factors, among which we should mention the willingness and the effort of many professionals. These professionals, avoiding their own protagonist, have invested all their dedication and efforts to built up the transplant programs, offering nowadays a real therapeutic chance to the patients . It also should be mentioned the always positive sensibility showed by the Departament de Sanitat, which first developed a specific program and later a fully dedicated organism towards the transplant about fifteen years ago, known as Organització Catalana de Trasplantament - OCATT) .

It also needs to be emphasized the interest that the Catalan Administration and particularly the Conselleria de Sanitat have adopted towards the organ transplantation. In 1982-83 they already had set up the bases of an organizational model that had no previous references and was demonstrated to be completely valid. In fact , later on it has been implemented and widely adapted by the rest of the Spanish State, being currently considered as a reference for many transplant organizations of different countries .

This first class activity and quality level has had a strong outer projection with the presence of many transplant professionals from our country in specialized publications, in the main scientific forums and international organizations.

An aspect that has characterized the relation between the different professionals from the transplant has been the desire to work together and to unite efforts for achieving common objectives. A constant way of collaboration between the different groups and the organization has been establish (multicentric works, scientific activities and congresses), being the greatest achievement the XVI the World Congress of Transplant organized by the Catalan Transplantation Society ,celebrated in Barcelona in August of 1996 with the participation of 3,500 physicians from 81 different countries.

LA SOCIETAT CATALANA DE TRASPLANTAMENT and La FUNDACIÓ CATALANA DE TRASPLANTAMENT.

The Catalan Transplantation Society (SCT) was founded like a Section of the Acadèmia de Ciències Mèdiques de Catalunya i Balears in 1984, by initiative of Dr Antoni Caralps and a group of close collaborators. Since then it has developed an intense and continued activity. The Catalan Transplantation Society gathers the professionals of all the solid organs and tissue transplants of Catalunya. Its activity is mainly focused in the regular scientific meetings that take place throughout the corresponding academic year. These meetings are normally held in one of the classrooms that the Acadèmia de Ciències Mèdiques has. The scientific sessions attempt to study specific areas coming from the contribution of the different groups working in our country or from the contribution of expert guests in or topics. Occasionally extraordinary sessions are organized to analyze some subject with greater amplitude with other professionals from different specialties.

An outstanding activity of the Catalan Transplantation Society is the organization every two years of its own Congress. These congresses have had an extensive degree of participation, since it was started, and the presented works have been published in the Transplantation Proceedings, which has a well-recognized international diffusion . This fact is a privilege that only few national societies of transplant have and that reflects the degree of international consideration that is exempted to us. The congress of the Catalan Trasplantation Society has become the congress of the transplant professionals around all Spain, with a massive participation.

The constant activity of Catalan Transplantation Society , the great dynamism of our transplant professionals and the organization of the XVI World Congress of Transplantation, came together in the consideration of the need to constitute the Catalan Transplantation Society at the end of 1995.

The Catalan Transplant Foundation (FCT) was constituted like complementary means of aid to the investigation, the formation of professionals and the promotion of the transplant. The Foundation does not attempt to be a substitute of our sanitary system and our institutions but it has the firm will to constitute an excellent element of collaboration in the transplantation area .

The board of the Catalan Transplant Foundation are exclusively the members of the council of the Catalan Transplantation Society, renewing statutorily every two years, up to four, except for the President of the Society, who is at the same time the president of the Foundation and can remain in the FCT board permanently .

CATALAN TRASPLANT FOUNDATION ACTIVITIES

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