The President of the Generalitat Carlos Mazón praised the healthcare system in the Valencian Community for reaching a record number of transplants and organ donors in 2024. This shows that “we are a leader in this area and a model for the scientific community.”

In this way, the data in 2024 reflect a total of 696 organ transplants, which represents a growth of 14.3% and 305 donors, which represents 11.3% more than in 2023, which “accredits the extraordinary work of Valencian public health professionals”.

This was expressed by the head of the Council during the presentation of the balance sheet for the 2024 financial year that took place at the Hospital de La Fe in an event together with the Minister of Health, Marciano Gómez, and the coordinator of Transplants of the Valencian Community, Rafael Badenes.

The head of the Council has shown his pride in the “solidarity and generosity” of the donors and their families and has highlighted the “great work of healthcare professionals and the entire team that participates in the donation and transplantation process for their professionalism and dedication 365 days a year, 24 hours a day.”

In fact, he stated that “there are 150 people on average involved in this process” between healthcare workers, security forces or logistics personnel, and he emphasized “the effort, exemplarity and human and technical quality” of the professionals of the Valencian public system.

The president highlighted that “this excellence positions us as one of the regions of more than five million inhabitants with the highest donation rate in the world”. Thus, in 2024 the number of deceased donors was 305 from whom several organs can be extracted, to which must be added living donors.

The data shows that the donor rate in the Valencian Community is 57.4 per million population, which places us above the national average of 52.6. In addition, the example of the province of Castellón with 95 donors per million population as “the highest in the world” should be highlighted.

Likewise, the data from the Valencian Community are well ahead of the European average, which is 22 donors per million population and in the case of Germany, 11 donors per million population. Furthermore, it should be noted that in the world, 90% of patients who need an organ die on the waiting list “while in our community this rate is 5%. For this reason, the head of the Council has assured that these data “encourage us to move forward and not fall into complacency to improve these results”.

During his speech, the president once again claimed the funding that “our country needs because it is for our public health system which, despite this, continues to be an international benchmark and is capable of offering data above the Spanish average.”

La Fe is the hospital in Spain that performs the most transplants.

In the balance of 2024, the Valencian Community has closed the year with a total of 696 transplants, with historical records in kidney, lung or heart transplants.

Specifically, 402 kidney transplants were performed, 13.2% more than the previous year, 100 lung transplants, with an increase of 35.1%, and 47 heart transplants, which are 34.3% more than in 2023. 140 liver transplants and 7 pancreas transplants were also carried out.

It should be noted that the La Fe Hospital in Valencia has once again positioned itself as a reference center both nationally and worldwide with 395 transplants, and is thus the hospital center in Spain that performs the most transplants, ahead of Vall d’Hebron.

In addition, it is the first in Spain with the highest number of liver transplants (105) and heart transplants (47). It has also carried out 136 kidney transplants, 100 lung transplants and seven pancreas transplants.

Likewise, it is necessary to refer to the fact that, among the transplants carried out, 23 have been in pediatric patients, with a growth of 76.9% compared to the previous year and which reaffirms the commitment of the Generalitat to implementing a program of prioritizing children.

Similarly, the Valencian Community has positioned itself as an innovative and pioneering region in Spain in the implementation of controlled asystole donation (DAC) with cardiac recovery with the implementation of 39 procedures, 11 of these in the La Fe Hospital itself, 23 in hospital centers in the Valencian Community (mobile cardiac DAC program) and 5 outside the Community.

In this regard, it should be noted that Hospital La Fe began the pediatric cardiac CAD program in 2024 and has positioned itself as the only hospital center in Spain that has extracted hearts and lungs for different pediatric recipients.

On the other hand, in the Doctor Balmis hospital in Alicante during the year 2024, 69 kidney transplants and 35 liver transplants were carried out, while in the General University Hospital of Elche 40 kidney transplants were undertaken. In the University Clinical Hospital of Valencia 4 kidney transplants were carried out and 64 in the Doctor Peset, and 52 kidney transplants in the General Hospital of Castellón.