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During this year, 11 people had a new chance to live thanks to the liver transplants that were performed in national hospitals.
Marvin Agüero, technical coordinator of donations and transplants from the Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS), declared that, this year, the number of procedures increased by 3.
According to the technical coordinator, the CCSS donation and transplant model, is based on the service network, which has allowed patients from the National Children’s Hospital (HNN) to be operated at Mexico Hospital or patients from San Juan de Dios Hospital to be transplanted by teams of surgeons from Mexico and Calderón Guardia Hospitals.
The institution guarantess its patients the possibility of benefiting from the procedure of a transplant, regardless the hospital they are referred to,
explained Agüero Chinchilla.