The Reina Sofía University Hospital in Córdoba has concluded its 24th Donation Week with the scientific conference 'New Challenges and Horizons in Donation and Transplantation'. This event, coinciding with the hospital's 50th anniversary, brought together fifty leading healthcare professionals to reflect on the present and future of this medical activity.

The conference, inaugurated by the director of the National Transplant Organization (ONT), Beatriz Domínguez-Gil, the delegate for Health and Consumption of the Junta in Córdoba, María Jesús Botella, the hospital's general director, Francisco Triviño, and transplant coordinator José María Dueñas, addressed crucial topics such as bioethics, new donation scenarios, the role of palliative care, donor detection by nursing staff, translational research, and the impact of artificial intelligence on improving outcomes.

Beatriz Domínguez-Gil's keynote lecture analyzed the evolution and challenges of the Spanish transplant model, which is internationally recognized. As a symbolic gesture, the hospital offered a special dessert to admitted patients, aiming to convey the spirit of gratitude, solidarity, and hope.

The Donation Week highlighted recent milestones, such as Andalusia's first ABO-incompatible pediatric heart transplant, performed on a five-month-old baby. So far this year, the hospital has registered 20 organ donors and performed 119 transplants. The blood drive on June 2nd also had a positive outcome, with 56 donations and the addition of 14 new donors.

The hospital expressed gratitude to donor families, transplant recipients, associations, collaborating institutions, healthcare professionals, and the citizens of Córdoba, recognizing the importance of every gesture and testimony in promoting donation and life.