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EMPODaT: a program to develop organ donation and transplantation in Egypt, Lebanon and Morocco

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Dr. Martí Manyalich, president of DTI Foundation - Donation & Transplantation Institute located at the PCB.
 16.09.2014

EMPODaT: a program to develop organ donation and transplantation in Egypt, Lebanon and Morocco

To design a postgraduate program that promotes organ donation and transplantation in Egypt, Lebanon and Morocco in accordance with the European Space for Higher Education guidelines, and to generate a consulting network with the participation of universities and other allied institutions. These are the main objectives of the Postgraduate Program on Organ Donation and Transplantation (EMPODat), a project led by the University of Barcelona and coordinated by Martí Manyalich, lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Barcelona (UB), president of Fundació DTI-Donation & Transplantation Institute (located at the PCB) and transplantation consultant at the Hospital Clínic in Barcelona.


EMPODat is a TEMPUS project funded by the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) of the European Commission. The creation of this postgraduate program is a step forward in the improvement of organ donation and transplantation in countries like Egypt, Lebanon and Morocco. To achieve its objectives, the programme promotes healthcare professionals training and the development of high-quality, sustainable systems of transplantations in Euromediterranean countries.

A total of ninety students (thirty students from each partner country of the European Neighbourhood Policy Partnership Instrument, ENPI) will benefit from the new Postgraduate Program on Organ Donation and Transplantation, funded and support by the European Commission.

The project —in progress since December 2013 until November 2015— promotes cooperation among several institutions: the University of Barcelona, DTI Foundation – Donation & Transplantation Institute (headquartered at PCB-UB), Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg (Germany), the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis (France), Lund University (Sweden), Cairo University (Egypt), the Lebanese American University (Lebanon), Mansoura University (Egypt), the University of Balamand (Lebanon), the University Hassan II (Morocco) and the University Mohammed V – Souissi (Morocco).

Organ donation and transplantation in Egypt, Lebanon and Morocco

Egypt does not have any programme of deceased donation (only living donation is done) and there are not health professionals specialized in organ donation. In 2013, 250 living-donor liver transplantations and 1,800 kidney ones were done in the country.

Lebanon has the National Organization for Organ & Tissues Donation & Transplantation. Transplants have been done in the country since 1985 (in the case of living donations) and 1990 (in the case of deceased donations). Lebanon has a programme of liver, kidney and heart (deceased-donor) transplantations.

In the case of Morocco, the programme of deceased-donor transplantations was set up in 2010. It is limited to kidney and cornea and developed at two university hospitals: Casablanca and Marrakech. Concerning living-donor transplantations, the first kidney transplantation was done in 1985. They have been regularly done since 1991

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