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The Network for the Rights of Children and Adolescents (REDHNNA) of Venezuela this Sunday demanded that the State reactivate the organ transplant program in order to guarantee the right to health of those who require this type of intervention.
“From the REDHNNA We demand that the State reactivate the Organ and Tissue Procurement System (SPOT), so that the thousands of boys, girls and adolescents with kidney pathologies can dream of a dignified life and a better future,” the organization wrote in a publication on X.
The network indicated that the Venezuelan State is obliged to guarantee the right to health of minors.
Likewise, he said that not reactivating this program “violates the right to health and life, enshrined in article 83 of the Constitution of Venezuela.”
On June 2, a commission of the National Assembly (AN, Parliament) announced a process to collect signatures from “victims” of the sanctions that the United States has imposed against the South American country, to later “consign them to international organizations.”
The head of this commission, the Chavista Pedro Infante, then assured, according to a press release, that the US measures “prevent care for girls and boys who require bone marrow transplants to save their lives“.
Several NGOs and activists in Venezuela carried out a campaign last June to demand the reactivation of the organ transplant program.
The director of the NGO Prepara Familia, Katherine Martínez, told EFE that there are few options for patients, since the possibility of live-to-live donation – the only one practiced in the country – is “exceptional”, among other things, he pointed out, due to the deficiencies in public hospitals that prevent execution of these interventions.
