During the month of January there were three cases of brain deaths; two babies and an adolescent, yet their organs were used to save seven people.

Six young children received the organs that they desperately needed; in some cases more than one because a total of ten organs were transplanted; thanks to the generosity of the grieving parents of the donors, as well as the professional capacity of the surgeons at the UCI Pediátrica del Maternal in Granada.

Nothing can compare to the loss of a child, but knowing that their loss will save the lives of other children makes a very small glimmer of light in the darkness of grief.

These parents receive a letter several months after the donation is made telling them, without giving names or personal details, how the receptor patients are doing. Something to hang onto.

Many months down the line, the parents of the child donors are invited into the hospital to receive from the doctors every possible explanation as to why the child died – all questions are answered. This is only if the parents want this, of course.

The percentage of families that permit the organs of their loved ones to be used in transplants is a staggering 85% – yet this percentage pales in the case of parents of young children, where the percentage is 99%.

(News: Granada, Andalucia)