Normal1 The organization of the http://bit.ly/XvV5Gq" Transplant Run has donated the raising from the last edition, held on 19 March, to the Vall d'Hebron Research Institut, with the aim of enhancing the research being done in the field of transplants and improving the care received by patients, especially paediatric, and their families, through the project Psychological support aimed at pre and post transplant paediatric recipients and their families carried out by Vall d'Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus. In total, it has been euros 23,215, which were presented in a ceremony at the head office of the Department of Health which involved Ma Carmen García Ruiz, from Obra Social "la Caixa" and the doctors Ramon Charco, head of the Service of Hepatobiliopancreatic Surgery and Transplants Vall d'Hebron and head of the http://bit.ly/2rL3Iks Digestive Transplant Group at VHIR and Teresa Pont, coordinator of Donation and Transplants Programs of the centre, and Dr. Antoni Roman, representing the Catalan Transplant Society. Normal1 The event, presided by director of the Catalan Health Service, David Elvira, and the director of the http://bit.ly/2gyqKIP" Catalan Transplant Organization (OCATT), Jaume Tort, has also served to present the acts for the Organ and Tissue Donor Day, organized by OCATT which joins Vall d'Hebron. The presentation was attended by Dr. Jesús Quintero, hepatologist of the Maternity Hospital of Vall d'Hebron, Monica Balaguer, liver living donor, and Dr. Anna Vila, nephrologist at the Hospital San Juan de Dios. To celebrate this date, on 11 June, there will be once again a group walk, now in its eleventh edition, between La Pedrera and the Sagrada Familia. Normal1 Earlier, in Vall d'Hebron, on 7 June, differednt associations will organize educational activities for the youngest patients at Vall d'Hebron. They will set information stands in the halls of the General Hospital and Maternity Hospital, which has the support of the http://bit.ly/1GiOYck" Catalan Association of Patients with Advanced Lung Disease and Transplant (AIRE), the http://bit.ly/1qGOB9f" Association of Kidney Patients (ADER) and the http://bit.ly/2rucpSf" Association for the fight against kidney disease (ALCER). There will also be participating the Liver Transplant Club of Catalonia and the http://bit.ly/1J4juw8" Association of Children With Liver Transplantation (ANINATH). Normal1 "Thanks, you've made it possible" Normal1 This year the Day of Organ and Tissue Donor want to regard the donor and the paediatric transplant recipient, thanking the generosity of donors and their families with the motto Thanks, you've made it possible. A generosity that last year resulted in 54 donations of organs and 305 of tissue in Vall d'Hebron. 2016 was a record year in the field of transplantation, since the hospital once again exceeded its historical number of lung transplants, 68 adults and five in paediatrics, and, at the same time, reached a new milestone with 10 transplants in only 24 hours. This 2017, until May, there have been 25 donations of organs and 135 of tissue. Normal1 For Catalonia as a whole, 2016 was also an important year. It surpassed the 1000 transplants for the first time, specifically 1017, with Vall d'Hebron leading this statistic, according to data from OCATT. In 2017 they have made 424 in Catalonia, a slight decrease compared to last year. Right now there are 1,351 people on the waiting list, 22 of these are paediatric patients. Normal1 Thanks to the generosity of donors and their families, Catalonia has the highest rate in the world with 135 transplants per million population and one of the highest donors per million inhabitants (42). Normal1 Over 40 years of transplant at Vall d'Hebron Normal1 The first Hospital transplant program was launched 41 years ago in 1976. In this time they have conducted over 23,000 organ and tissue transplants and has become a leader in this field in Spain, with 9 of the 10 existing programs. It is a reference centre in solid organ transplantation and of paediatric hematopoietic stem cell, and transplantation of lung in adults and children. Among its most notable achievements, it was the first state to perform paediatric liver transplant in 1986 and the first cardiopulmonary to a child in 2006. In these four decades, there have been more than 800 paediatric transplants.