10% fewer transplants
In 2021, 5,273 transplants took place, the vast majority of kidney transplants which represent two thirds of operations, according to data from the Biomedicine Agency. A jump of 20% compared to 2020, but a comparison distorted by the Covid crisis.
Compared to 2019, the last year before the crisis, the drop in transplants was around 10% last year. However, the number of applicants has continued to increase with more than 20,000 people waiting.
To relaunch organ and tissue donations, a ministerial action plan was presented Monday by the ministry and the Biomedicine Agency. The hope is to reach between 6,700 and 8,300 transplants in 2026, according to the Agency.
Financially, two billion euros are announced over five years. Of this total, “for the first time”, the new measures will have additional funding of 210 million.
150 referent nurses
By 2026, 150 experienced nurses will be mobilized to better coordinate hospital samples.
Other novelties: the “assumed development” of “multisource” samples from deceased, living and pediatric donors, to “counterbalance the downward trend in the number of subjects in a state of brain death”.
For kidney transplants, France is counting on 20% of living donors in 2026, compared to 16% in 2021. In the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, 82% and 53% respectively of kidney transplants are linked to living donors.