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The District Health Secretariat and the Council of Bogota awarded the order 'Social Responsibility Donate Bogota', to natural and legal persons committed to the donation of human organs and tissues in the Capital District.

The District Tissue Bank IDCBIS was awarded second place in Category 2: Promotion of donation for transplant purposes.

Likewise, the District Health Secretariat and the Council of Bogota made a special recognition to the institutions: Corporación Banco de Ojos de Colombia (Cobancol), Fundación Cosme y Damián and the Instituto Distrital de Ciencia, Biotecnología e Innovación en Salud (IDCBIS), for their contribution in the promotion and operational management of organ and tissue donation for transplantation purposes, in 2017.

For 9 years, this initiative has recognized and honored people who encourage and promote, through awareness-raising activities, the donation of organs and tissues for transplant and implant purposes, and who support transplant patients.

During the first quarter of 2018, the District Health Secretariat managed the donation of 81 organs, corresponding to cadaveric donors (57 kidneys, 18 livers and 6 hearts), with which an equal number of patients were transplanted. Likewise, 31 living donor transplants were performed (21 kidneys and 10 livers).

The District Health Secretariat also reported that so far this year it has received 7 organs (4 kidneys and 3 livers) for transplant from other regions of the country, for a total of 83 beneficiaries.

IDCBIS, passion for science and life.

A few months ago, during her time at IDCBIS, Yurani, the mother of Maryuris, a girl whose life was saved by a blood-forming cell transplant two years ago, pre-registered for DarCélulas.

Maryuris and Yurani were interviewed by the media, as more than 20 umbilical cord blood units - processed at the IDCBIS Public Cord Blood Bank - have been transplanted. They gave testimony of a successful transplant.

Maternal umbilical cord blood contains cells capable of producing blood components, these are called hematopoietic progenitor cells, which, when transplanted into a patient with a serious blood disease, can generate new blood components. A process similar to sowing a seed capable of creating new plants.

Maryuris recovered from medullary aplasia, a disease in which the bone marrow stops producing the different blood components. Thanks to an umbilical cord blood cell transplant performed in Bogota in 2017.

Mayuris can now do her favorite activities such as skateboarding. It was all possible thanks to an altruistic donation of umbilical cord cells, which were processed and stored at the IDCBIS Public Cord Blood Bank.

Yurani expressed her willingness to be a blood-forming cell donor, pre-registering with DarCélulas at www.idcbis.org.co/darcelulas because she hopes, at some point, to be able to help someone who is in a similar situation to the one her daughter experienced a few years ago.

This Tuesday, the District Institute of Science, Biotechnology and Innovation in Health IDCBIS, belonging to the Health Sector, gave the Christian Church El Lugar de su Presencia recognition for its great support to blood donation from its community, with a total of 2753 blood donations in 22 donation days in recent years; this large number of altruistic acts has benefited more than 7,000 patients of the Public Hospital Network in the city of Bogota and other hospital institutions nationwide.

The award was presented by IDCBIS Director Dr. Bernardo Camacho to Pastors Claudia Bermúdez and Orlando Reyes and to representatives Alex Torres and Óscar Ferro, from El Lugar de su Presencia Church, who expressed their gratitude for being able to make these alliances with the Health Sector for the health and wellbeing of the capital's community.