Save 1 million lives

DTI’s main field of action is academic training and education. We reckon that training doctors, nurses and healthcare professionals in the best practices of organ donation and transplantation is the most effective way to spread these best practices around the world.

In this case, educating and training doctors translates into saving more lives. To promote education and training in organ donation and transplantation in as many countries as possible, we want to facilitate access to these courses to healthcare professionals who find themselves in developing countries. That is why we created our project on GlobalGiving, to raise money to finance scholarships and, ultimately, save lives.

This October, three new granted students will join the TPM course in Barcelona. The scholarship holders will attend the Advanced International Training Course in Transplant Procurement Management, which will be taking place in the Faculty of Medicine of University of Barcelona (UB) between October 21^st and 25^th. The course may be validated with 10 ECTS credits and covers the fundamental aspects of organ donation and transplantation enabling participants to acquire a wide knowledge and skills on brain death diagnosis, donor management, living donation, family approach, organ recovery and preservation techniques, tissue procurement, processing and distribution, and ethics and legislation, among others.

Two of the students are from Ho Chi Mihn, Vietnam. Dr. Nhieu studied Medicine and Neurosurgery in Ho Chi Minh University and is currently working in the Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit in Cho Ray Hospital, in Ho Chi Mihn. Dr. Linh, also from Ho Chi Mihn, graduated in the first and second degree as a specialist in Intensive Care Unit. He has trained in resuscitation of liver transplant patients, and he is currently working ad the Deputy Chief of the ICU in Cho Ray Hospital. Dr. Sathyadas, from India,is the third scholarship holder and he qualified as an anaesthesiologist and is working as an associate professor in Anaesthesiology in the Government Medical College Hospital Thiruvananthapuram. He has had active participation in liver transplantation programs and deceased donor maintenance programs, among others.

These three professionals have been selected for their motivation to improve their local health and organ donation system. In India, according to the Global Observatory on Donation and Transplantation, there were 875 deceased donors (0,65 pmp) and a total of 10.340 organ transplants (7,64 pmp). The global average of deceased donors is 9,42 pmp and 35,13 organ transplants per million of population. There is no data or registry of donations or transplantations in Vietnam.