The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and DTI Foundation keep cooperating in the framework of the implementation of a quality management system on organ donation
Last November, the SCOT (Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation) and DTI Foundation signed a collaborative agreement to improve the clinical aspects related to the deceased organ donation on the country. This 3-year program sponsored by the Ministry of Health of Saudi Arabia includes knowledge exchange visits to increase the detection of possible donors, healthcare professionals training activities and the development of an IT tool based on the successful model ODEQUS (Organ Donation European Quality System). The program aims to increase the Saudi donation rate up to 10 pmp.
In this framework, six hospitals participate in the pilot phase of the project: King Abdulaziz National Guard Medical City in Riyadh, King Saud Medical City in Riyad, King Fahad Specialist Hospital in Dammam, King Fahd Hospital in Jeddah and King Abdulaziz Hospital in Jeddah.
During the first week of March (5th-9th), a Saudi delegation composed by Dr. Bicher Attar (SCOT medical director), Dr. Elsayed Gadalla (SCOT medical coordinator), Dr. Mohammed Shalaby (Head of the ICU department in King Fahd Hospital, Jeddah) and Dr. Rasheed Alhubail (Critical care consultant in King Fahad Specialist Hospital, Dammam) came to Barcelona and Madrid to visit reference centers and meet with the competent authorities to know more about the Spanish donation model.
Meeting with Dr. Manyalich in Hospital Clínic de Barcelona during the visit of the Saudi delegation.
Until this date, the project has the support from the following centers: Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, OCATT (Organització Catalana de Transplantaments), Hospital Dr. Josep Trueta, Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge, Hospital Universitario Gregorio Marañón and the ONT (Organización National de Trasplantes).
During the last knowledge exchange activity last month (March 19th – 22nd), DTI experts met in situ with the participant hospitals’ representatives to introduce and provide guidance about the internal audits methodology.
Meeting with the hospital representatives in King Saud Medical City, Riyadh (March 2018)
Moreover, since January 2018, DTI Foundation has led monthly videoconferences with the SCOT and the project responsible from the participant hospitals to monitor the project’s evolution and implement the internal audits to evaluate the hospitals’ performance in terms of deceased donation.
March 2018 monthly videoconference
All this work and efforts converge with the objective to enhance the communication between the SCOT and the donor hospitals by identifying areas in which additional specialized expertise or training are required and establishing a proper action plan.
Annual Report 2017 DTI Foundation
We are glad to present you the Annual Report of DTI Foundation for 2017.
To know more about our activity (Educational programs; Congresses attendance; European and other International Projects) you can take a look:
https://issuu.com/dtifoundation/docs/annual_report_2017_dti_foundation
First Summit in Organ Donation and Transplantation in the Caribbean area was held in Trinidad and Tobago
Last March the DTI team composed by Dr. Rudolf Garcia Gallont; Dr. Fernando Salgado; Dr. Rafael Reyes Acevedo and from DTI Dr. Maria Paula Gomez and Dr. Entela Kondi visited Trinidad and Tobago and during the visit were involved in several activities and events happening in the country.
On the 11th of march was held the First Summit in Organ Donation and Transplantation in the Caribbean area. The event was organized by the North Branch of the Medical Association of Trinidad and Tobago and the National Organ Transplantation Unit (NOTU) and strongly supported by DTI Foundation and REPSOL.
The main aim of the event was to bring together all the countries in the region, to encourage them about the donation activities and to try to find connections and synergies to move forward the program. The minister of health of T&T, the president of the T&T Medical Association, the Spanish ambassador, the Assistant Secretary-General for Human and Social Development CARICOM, the advisor health system and services PAHO T&T, the director of REPSOL in T&T were the honored guests who participated in the summit. Excellent discussion on the sub regional approach on Organ Donation and Transplantation in the Caribbean was made and the critical role of CARICOM in ensuring coordination and support among the Caribbean countries was highlighted.
Following the summit, the DTI team together with the Trinities colleagues participated in the “9th Annual Walkathon” an awareness activity organized in recognition of World Kidney Day (March 8th, 2018) from the Kidney Recipient Support Group of Trinidad and Tobago with the objective to raise awareness about kidney health, as well as to provide support to transplanted patient.Sharing the enthusiasm of the health professionals and the public regarding organ donation and transplantation was a wonderful experience.
On the following days the experts of DTI together with the representatives of the NOTU had the chance to organize official meetings at the Ministry of Health; The PAHO; different hospitals and dialysis centers talking with the experts in the field to assure the continuity of the donation and transplantation program in the country.
REPSOL, a strong support to the DTI for the development of the project, was present in all the activities and a meeting for the collaboration continuity was made with the director Mr. David Allan.
We are very thankful to all our colleagues and friends in Trinidad and we look forward seeing the program growing and consolidated all over the region.
DTI's 10th Anniversary!!
This year the DTI Foundation celebrates the 10th anniversary. Since 2008 we work with the aim of saving lives through donation and transplant throughout the world.
This 10th anniversary will be celebrated with the incorporation of the new logo of the institution that will be included in all our communications.
Throughout the year we have scheduled a series of celebrations that will begin in May with an institutional event at the Foundation - Barcelona Science Park and in Autumn with one or more social events.
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