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The President of the Republic will visit next Friday, 28 May, three transplant centres – two in Lisbon and one in Coimbra – as a gesture of public recognition for the importance of these centres towards the success that Portugal has achieved in this area.

Curry Cabral Hospital and the Portuguese Institute of Oncology, in Lisbon, and the Coimbra University Hospitals were the units chosen due to their high levels of activity, technical relevance and pioneering in transplants in Portugal.

Jointly considered, these centres have already carried out thousands of transplants that have led to the possibility of cure and renewed life for a great number of people. These units have each performed more than 1,000 transplants.

Portugal is one of the countries with greater activity in organ and tissue transplants and, along with Spain, a world leader in the number of donors per million inhabitants.

The constant growth in the number of successful transplants has kept the country always at the forefront of this Medical and Surgical activity on a worldwide basis. Portugal is nowadays technically qualified to carry out the large majority of the different types of transplants.

The most frequent transplants performed in Portugal are renal, liver, bone medullar and cardiac, in the case of organs, and of the cornea in the case of tissues.

Holding these visits to the three transplant units, the President of the Republic also wishes to show his appreciation and recognition to the donors and their families, as well as to all the technicians who have made possible the number of transplants carried out.