2023-08-30 14:00:38
Non-governmental organizations reported the death of a patient from the Nephrology service of the main pediatric hospital in Venezuela, the JM de los Riosin Caracas.
María Victoria Figueredo, 16 years old, died on August 29, the organization reported on social networks Prepare Familywhich supports patients at the pediatric center and their families.
“He had been on dialysis for a year. Faced with this unfair reality, we only unite in prayer for his rest and ask for comfort from his family and loved ones,” added the National Transplant Organization of Venezuela (Ontv).
As reported the stimulusMaría Victoria had been a patient in the Nephrology service since 2017 and, although she had improved, her condition worsened in 2022 following contracting COVID-19.
I was waiting for a kidney transplant. His family is from Guarenas, Miranda state. She wanted to recover and study Social Communication.
Spot is still suspended
With his death, they add up to at least four deaths of children or adolescents with kidney disease at the main pediatric hospital in the country this 2023. Eukarys Guevara, 13, died before María Victoria.
According to Ontv estimates, at least 130 pediatric patients might have benefited if the organ and tissue procurement system (Spot) was active, the main transplant program in the country, which allowed transplants with organs from deceased donors. . This 2023, the Spot fulfilled six years suspended.
At the end of 2022, at JM de los Ríos they performed a living donor transplant once more following 13 years without doing so. Although they expected it to be the first of many, since then they have not been able to do more.
The children and adolescents in the Nephrology service have been protected by precautionary measures from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) since 2018. These measures urge the Venezuelan State to adopt necessary actions to guarantee their life, personal integrity and health, but still have not been fulfilled.
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