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SPAIN: RECORD ON TRANSPLANT SURGERY IS ENVY OF THE WORLD

(21 Oct 1996) Spanish/Nat Twice as many people in Spain donate their organs when they die than in any other European country. Spain has been running a high profile campaign for several years, which has meant that each year, 27 organs are donated for every million people -- almost twice as many as in America or elsewhere in Europe. APTV accompanied a Spanish surgeon on a mission to rush a heart from a donor in Barcelona to a recipient in Madrid. Spain's record on transplant surgery is the envy of the world. It's not that surgeons here are doing anything different from their colleagues in other countries. But the system of matching up donors with recipients works more smoothly here than anywhere else. It's a record which Spain's National Transplant Organisation is justly proud of. UPSOUND: Hello, this is the National Transplant Organisation. Good afternoon. So you have a heart available for donation from Barcelona? Give the name of donor, please, his weight, 80 kilogrammes. (Manolo Sanchez Lopez, transplant coordinator) The Madrid office of the transplant organisation pages 31-year-old open specialist heart surgeon Juan Carlos Tellez. Within minutes he's on a plane to Barcelona. Speed is of the essence -- Tellez and his team have just five hours to retrieve the heart and carry out the operation. Once at the Hospital Clinic in Barcelona, he makes a thorough check of the donor organ. If it's not the right size and shape it could be unsuitable for transplanting. Fortunately, he's able to phone Madrid with good news. UPSOUND: Esther?, well the heart is compatible, and we will have it out within 25 to 30 minutes, All right? (Juan Carlos Tellez, surgeon) The valuable organ is place in a sealed container packed in ice. The medical team is given a police escort to the airport where air traffic controllers open the Mystere-20 jet priority over all other air traffic on its journey back to Madrid. With few minutes to spare, the team arrives in Madrid's Puerta de Hierro Clinic with the heart. To save time, recipient Carlos Molina has already had his own sick heart removed. His blood is being circulated and oxygenated by an electronic pumping bench. Juan Carlos begins the delicate task of sewing the heart in place. The moment of truth arrives -- the surgeons send an electronic pulse through the transplanted heart. The computer screen reveals the new organ is operating normally. After the long operation -- and a 600 mile trip to Barcelona and back -- Juan Carlos still finds the strength to promote more donations for the thousands of patients still on waiting lists. SOUNDBITE: My family, my friends, we are all donors. Q: And your wife? A: Yes she's also giving everything. She's made a point of saying so and so have I, of course. SUPERCAPTION: Juan Carlos Tellez, surgeon Carlos Molina is wheeled away by nurses to intensive care. Within two weeks he's well enough to return home. SOUNDBITE: Mariana (voice off): It's over, it's finished now. Carlos: She's suffered a lot. Mariana: Not really, the one who's really enduring it, it is him, of course, but it is now over, we're happy, and we're going through all this extremely well. Yesterday it was 15 days since the operation, and I don't think we can ask for better, can we? SUPER CAPTION: heart recipient Carlos Molina Tatay and wife Mariana For a man previously confined to bed, a new heart means a new life. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...