Examination of Witnesses (Questions 40
- 41)
THURSDAY 22 NOVEMBER 2007
Dr Eduardo Fernandez-Zincke
Q40 Lord Lea of Crondall:
I am sorry.
Dr Fernandez-Zincke: On the contrary, there
is a few exchange of organs from Spain and other third countries.
I said that, from all the donors that are, let us say, in the
hospitals in Spain, 9% of these donors are coming from other Member
States or from other countries. It is not the organ which goes
to Spain, it is the donor who is living in Spain or who is resident
in Spain and who decides to be a donor in Spain. My point is that
more and more in our populations we will have a higher percentage
of foreign population living with us, and this population will
increasingly be more important for the donor programme.
Q41 Chairman: The important
message I took from that is that the structure of the way you
do it is more important than all the other issues: if you get
the structure right in terms of the way you manage organ donation,
you will get more people coming forward. That is something we
need to take on pretty strongly in terms of our inquiry. It is
11 o'clock. We are extraordinarily grateful to you. I know the
Committee have found that very informative and I have found it
absolutely fascinating. We are sorry we have to rush through at
such a pace but that is the way these committees do work. I think
we have an extraordinary amount of information from you. If there
is anything you think we have not heard that we should have heard,
please do let us know. If there is any other question we want
to ask you, I am sure you would be only too delighted to correspond
with us if that was needed. Thank you very much indeed.
Dr Fernandez-Zincke: Thank you very much, on
behalf of the Commission, for giving us the opportunity to be
here today.
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