The Italian Association for the Donation of Organs, Tissues and Cells (Aido) presented a new version of the application for organ donation in the country during a session in the Italian Senate.
From now on, all citizens will be able to register with an electronic identity card (CIE), in addition to the digital signature and the public digital identity system.
DigitalAIDO has been operational for a year and a half in Italy and has already collected 29,458 “yes” candidates for organ donation. In total, 16 thousand, equal to 55%, are young people under the age of 30.
The new version, which provides for the possibility of expressing will also with an electronic ticket, has already collected 750 “yes” in the first nine days in force. This time around, a third of the enrollments are young people under 30.
With the launch, Aido has recorded a significant increase in choices through the app, which have risen to 53% of the total. “Aido plays an essential role in Italy in promoting the culture of the present. This is essential to lower the rate of opposition which, on average, is 30% in Italy. must continue to inform incessantly”, explained Massimo Cardillo, director of the National Transplant Center (CNT).
As at 31 December 2022, only 26% of adult citizens in Italy expressed their opinion on the subject of donation. According to CNT data, more than 8,000 people are awaiting a transplant in the country, but a third of potential donors refuse extraction, while 2,000 transplants are not performed every year due to opposition to becoming a donor.
In all there are 5,800 citizens on the waiting list for a new kidney, 1,000 for a liver, 700 for a heart, 300 for a lung, 200 for a pancreas and five for an intestine. About 4,000 new patients are added to the list every year and waiting times, especially for non-urgent cases, remain long.
The country has carried out hundreds of initiatives and thousands of appeals are promoted on social networks by institutions (Ministry of Health and the National Association of Italian Municipalities), hospitals and healthcare companies, mayors, personalities from culture and entertainment and volunteers from associations.
The goal is to make Italians aware of explicitly declaring their consent to organ harvesting after death, to give hope to the approximately 8,000 patients currently in need of a transplant.
“Last year the National Health Service managed to carry out almost 4,000 transplants, of which 125 were pediatric, thanks to the contribution of 1,830 organ donors, the highest number ever recorded in Italy, to which were added 11,000 tissue donors who allowed another 20,000 such transplants,” concluded Cardillo. .
Source: Terra
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