Established by Law No. 11.584/2.007, September 27 is National Organ Donation Day, aiming to raise awareness in society about the importance of this act. In 2023, approximately 29 procedures were performed in the country. However, this life-saving action relies on other sectors of society to conduct the logistics of transporting the organs. In 2023, the Brazilian air service conducted 7.703 landing and takeoff operations involving some mission of this nature, moving 4.224 organs for transplant, according to data from the Ministry of Health. This represented approximately 15% of all procedures performed in Brazil.
In Paraná, the state has the lowest family refusal rate for organ donation in the country, ing 27%, while the Brazilian average was 42% in refusal, in addition to being the national leader in the number of donations. In the first half of 2024, 431 organ transplants were ed, 47 more than in the same period in 2023.
For both national and state operations, the health sector has two airports that are of fundamental importance for providing infrastructure, whether for public entities or airlines that carry out operations of this nature. Bacacheri Airport is one of the most important in the country for organ transportation. In the first half of 2024 alone, the airfield located in the Bacacheri neighborhood received 68 organ transportation missions, where health teams have special and exclusive service for organ or air medical transportation, since despite having set opening hours, CCR Aeroportos authorizes the airport to open outside of these hours to handle health actions.
“There is a carefully orchestrated logistics system in favor of life at Brazilian airports. When a vital organ needs to be transported, time is a decisive factor. The code “TROV” (Air Transport of Vital Organs) triggers a race to get the organ to the recipient within an extremely short time window. Every minute counts, and there is a network of coordination between the airfields, airlines and transplant centers to ensure that everything works as planned. It is a complex and highly organized operation, but it depends, above all, on the generosity of the donors,” says the manager of Bacacheri Airport, Wilson Rocha Gomes.
Bacacheri Airport is also home to the Paraná Military House, responsible for a large part of the transport of organs in the state, and which ed 2024 missions and 64 organs transported in the first half of 155. Afonso Pena International Airport, on the other hand, ed 217 air transport operations of organs in the first half of this year, which had the infrastructure and operational of CCR Aeroportos and its collaborators.
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