A delegation of the Thai Red Cross Society attends to a tissue bank course in Colombia coordinated by DTI Foundation
DTI Foundation is collaborating with Fundación Banco de Tejidos Humanos in the development of a consultancy program for the Thai Red Cross Society from Bangkok, Thailand. The program, focused on the procurement and process of musculoskeletal tissue, included a two-week course in the tissue bank facilities in Pereira, Colombia.
In this framework, Dr. Chalit Cheanvechai, Mr. Sombat Rongchaiyaphum and Ms. Nongnuch Maphanao attended the course that took place from January 22nd to February 2nd, 2018. Dr. Edison Duque and Dr. Jaime Duque from Fundación Banco de Tejidos Humanos were the Colombian experts in charge of the implementation. The course includes collaborations with the local hospitals, practical sessions and theoretical lectures to gain scientific knowledge and practical vision.
DTI experts visit the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for the implementation of a quality management system on organ donation program.
DTI Foundation is collaborating with the SCOT (Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation) in a project sponsored by the Ministry of Health of KSA (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia). This 3-year program aims to implement a quality management system to increase deceased the donation rate.
Within this framework, an in-situ diagnosis study visit was organized last December 10-14 in KSA lead by Dr. Martí Manyalich (DTI president), Dr. José Luís Escalante (project director), Dr. Francesco Procaccio (ICU expert), Mr. Estephan Arredondo (project coordinator) and supported by SCOT experts.This visit included meetings with the Ministry of Health of KSA and medical experts at different hospitals in the cities of Riyadh and Jeddah to analyze the global situation of the country in terms of organ donation.
As a result of these encounters, some areas of improvement were detected and recommendations were pesented to the Ministry of Health as part of the quality report.
The next phase of the project will involve the implementation of quality indicators in six hospitals affiliated to the SCOT through an IT tool based on the successful model ODEQUS (Organ Donation European Quality System).
Transplanting Smiles campaign continues
From the 12th to the 15th of December took place the presentation of the Transplanting Smiles project at the A Coruña Hospital Complex. The film production company Daristoteles has promoted this initiative with the sponsorship of Chiesi Laboratories and the collaboration of the DTI Community.
Transplanting Smiles campaign looks forward to thanking the health care professionals involved in organ donation and transplantation for their non-stop work and the society for its generosity to donate organs. The campaign will also help raise awareness of the importance of organ donation for transplant.
The health professionals of the A Coruña hospital were interviewed and shared their smile in the display that was placed at the hospital. During their stay, Daristoteles also made interviews to transplant patients and their families. All the interviews will be reflected in a documentary that will be made once the project has finished its way through different Spanish hospitals.
During its passage through A Coruña the project wanted to thank the health professionals for their work in the donation and transplantation of organs of the autonomous community of Galicia. Transplanting smiles continues to increase society’s awareness of the importance of organ donation for transplant.
Attendance to the 15th Congress of the Asian Society of Transplantation (CAST)
Dr. Marti Manyalich and Dr. Chloë Ballesté attended the 15th Congress of the Asian Society of Transplantation (CAST) held in Cebu, Philippines as representatives of TPM-DTI Foundation.
From the 28th-30th of November they attended the congress and presented 4 oral communications and 2 posters.
On the 27th DTI leaded with the Philippines chairmans the precongress workshop on Deceased Organ Donation. It was a perfect program for sharing strategies to increase deceased donation with attendees from Pakistan, Srilanka, India, Philippines, Corea, Japan and Singapore.
We thank to the organization for this opportunity and also to all the attendants who visited our stand in Cebu. We will keep in touch!
ERASMUS PROJECT / EUROPEAN VOLUNTARY SERVICE (EVS)
A new edition of the Erasmus Program in its European Volunteer Service (EVS) modality has started this October. The TPM-DTI Foundation has acted again on this occasion as a host of two volunteers, from Poland and Italy, who will develop during a period of nine months the project "Training Programs and Consulting Projects in the field of Donation and Transplantation of Organ and Tissues”. We have yet to join a third volunteer before the end of the year.
This is already the sixth edition of the EVS Program that the Foundation has been carrying out since its inception in 2013. This involves the training of more than 12 people from different European countries who have shown their willingness and commitment to enter into a volunteer program and to be involved for nearly a year in supporting the projects of our TPM-DTI Foundation in Barcelona.
Final Meeting Seeding Life - SeeLife Project
On October 25th – 27th, 2017, the Final Meeting of the Seeding Life (SeeLife), Erasmus + Project was held in Riga, Latvia.
A total of 20 representatives from 4 different countries (Bulgaria, Spain, Latvia and Lithuania) participated in this final meeting.
The objectives of the final meeting were:
- To review all the activities developed during the project
- To discuss the training program evaluation results
- To constitute a Seeding Life network in Organ Donation and Transplantation and to sign a final networking agreement
- To focus on the program expansion to different potential adopters outside initial target group by dissemination media event and conference
- To optimize deliverables and ensure their dissemination
We are glad to announce that the main outcomes of the project were achieved and even overpassed. A total of 26 participants from Bulgaria and Latvia were certified as trainers in the first phase of the project implementation. In the second phase during the Multiplier Events: 6 in Latvia and 10 in Bulgaria, the trainers have disseminated the project outputs among more than 620 healthcare professionals.
Now the closing phase of Seeding Life is under progress. Everyone is working hard to submit their part for the final reports.
We would like to thank all partners, officials, external stakeholders and media for contributing to the success of the final meeting. It was memorable experience for all of us.
Disclaimer: This project is co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union
Transplantation Big Bang Barcelona
The 18th Congress of the European Society for Organ Transplantation has taken place in Barcelona on Sunday 24th till Wednesday 27th of September. This event has helped to put a focus on the quality of the science. Barcelona was the venue of the ESOT congress in 1989 when ESOT was an emergent European transplant community that provided solid organ transplant programs and now it has returned to Barcelona as the most important organisation in organ transplantation in Europe.
Nowadays the European Society for Organ Transplantation organizes all the activities related to European transplants. The congress wanted to redefine our knowledge of basic science and clinical concepts to improve transplantation. The discrepancy between the high demand and the shortage in organs available remains a challenge.
In the framework of the congress it was presented the project Transplanting Smiles in which DTI Community collaborates. This campaign looks forward to thanking the health care professionals involved in organ donation and transplantation for their non-stop work and the society for its generosity to donate organs. Transplanting Smiles also wants to raise awareness of the importance of organ donation and transplantation.
With that objective during the congress the producers of the campaign, Daristoteles, had the opportunity to present the project to professionals of the healthcare sector. They offered them to participate sharing a smile, one of the principal objectives of the project. Furthermore the team of Daristoteles made some interviews to doctors and important charges in organ donation and transplantation with the aim, in a near future, of making a documental of their experiences to reflect their job to the society.
EUDONORGAN training course organized by DTI Foundation, September 2017
EUDONORGAN service contract (Training and social awareness for increasing organ donation in the European Union and neighbouring countries” 2016-2019), brings its first results! After dedicating the first 6 months of 2017 to the development of a unique and innovative training tool, the EUDONORGAN implements its training program with exceptional results.
Despite summer holidays, we received 173 applications out of which 101 participants were selected, both health care professionals and other key players involved in the organ donation process.
A total of 28 European countries were represented in the program (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Montenegro, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, The Netherlands, Turkey). Among them there were 51 medical doctors, 27 nurses, one medical student, eight patients and patients’ representatives (four of them transplant recipients), two journalists, eight communication experts mainly working for National Competent Authorities, two other representatives of national authorities or ministries, one manager of health care establishment and one documentalist.
The challenging training program employed a blended learning methodology, by means of webinars, online (via WebApp) and face to face training, and amounted to a maximum of 100 study hours.
During the online training, a WebApp with different routes and scenarios has been available to our participants, according to their profile. Out of the total, 97 participants joined the face to face session along with experts from six different countries: Croatia, France, Italy, Slovenia, Spain, The Netherlands. The program was highly evaluated and put the basis of a strong community of advocates in organ donation. In this regard, an EUDONORGAN Facebook group has been created where we continue to share common initiatives and future steps.
We want to acknowledge the European Parliament and the European Commission for such a unique initiative, the project partners for the ongoing effort and last but not least, the National Competent Authorities, PHA Europe (European Pulmonary Hypertension Association) and other collaborators for their valuable support during the selection procedure. Together we make a difference!
Soon we will be back with further news!
Press & Media
http://www.ub.edu/ubtv/video/eudonorgan-train-the-trainers-face-to-face-course-plenary-session
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3rd edition of the Intermediate Transplant Procurement Management Course, Nanning
The third visit of the TPM-DTI team in the province of Guangxi China took place this September from 18th till 22nd , and was combine with both hospital visit and the development of the third Edition of the intermediate Transplant Procurement Management course ,that took place in the beautiful city of Nanning.
The DTI-TPM team was composed by Dr. Amado Andrés, Dr. Mario Chico, Dr. David Paredes, Dr. Chloë Ballesté and Dr. Entela Kondi; who together with the local experts Wenshi Jiang and Catherine Wong and the local director and coordinators of the course prof. Xuyong Sun and Dr. Jianhui Dong made this event successful.
The experts during the first two days, 18th and 19th of September, visited three hospitals in three different cities of the Guangxi province. The hospital visited were Guigang people’s hospital ; The second People´s hospital of Pignan City and The first people´s hospital of Yulin. These three hospitals are the hospitals with important activity in the donation process in the whole region.
Discussions with the health professionals and as well directors of the hospitals were made. Ideas between the experts and the local physicians were exchanged and proposals for improvement were presented.
Following the activities on 20th of September the TPM course started.
Being this course as part of the actions of the cooperation project with the OPO of the 303 Military Hospital in Nanning, had a particular importance in the area and the participation was very plausible. The course was welcomed also by the representative of the Organ Donation Administrative Center and other health authorities.
51 participants coming from different hospitals in the area were granted with a TPM diploma. During the three days of course development they show high interest in following the lecturers and active participation in the workshops. The knowledge and experience the experts shared with the students, will motivate them to be more involved in the organ donation field and to improve their daily clinical practice in their own units.
We expect this course to be effective as the previous ones and to show a great impact in terms of numbers of organs available for transplantation. 
Thanking all the organizers of the course we look forward to the next activity in Guangxi province.
DTI attends to the European Organ Donor Day
DTI Foundation participated in the EODD (European Organ Donor Day) that was held in Bern (Switzerland) on September 9th. This event was organized by Swisstransplant, and sponsored by the Council of Europe and the European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines & Healthcare. The EODD gathered international representatives of the organ donation and transplantation sector.
The objectives of this celebration were to discuss doubts about organ donation, to raise awareness among the population, to thank the donors and their relatives and to show appreciation to everybody working in the area of organ donation.
In addition, Dr. Manyalich participated in the Organ Donor Day held in Geneva (Switzerland) during the same day. He spoke on the Official Ceremony at the WHO Headquarter as the president of the ISODP (International Society for Organ Donation and Procurement).
For further information, please visit the following websites
http://www.coe.int/en/web/human-rights-channel/organ-donation