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Banco de tecido do Instituto Nacional de Traumatologia e Ortopedia (INTO), no Rio de Janeiro
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Brazil launches organ, tissue donation campaign

The move seeks to get families to talk about the topic. Under Brazilian law, families must authorize the donation, so the donors’ intention must be clear to relatives.

Hospital de Bonsucesso retoma transplantes de córnea após incêndio
Health

Campaign underscores family has final say on organ donation

A survey entitled Organ Donation, revealed that seven in every ten Brazilians would like to be organ donors after death. However, approximately half of these potential donors (46%) did not inform their families of their intention.

transplantes
General

Brazil organ donation statistics improve

The number of actual organ donors in Brazil increased from 13.1 per million people to 14 per million in the second quarter of this year, according to the Brazilian Association of Organ Transplantation (ABTO).

General

Organ donation hampered by lack of dialogue

After 50 years of the first organ transplant in Brazil, many families still refuse to donate the organs of their deceased relatives upon brain death.

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