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Lima 5K Closes Organ and Tissue Donation Week With Over 3,000 Participants

EsSalud used the run to urge Peruvians to record donor intent on the DNI, promoting family conversations about donation wishes.

Overview

  • The race, organized by EsSalud with the Lima municipal government, started and finished at Parque Cervantes along Avenida Arequipa.
  • Donor families and transplant recipients shared testimonies, including a mother who said her son’s organs benefited seven people and a woman who received a kidney transplant 12 years ago.
  • EsSalud’s Procura and Transplant chief, Dr. Erick De La Torre, emphasized that a single donor can save up to nine lives.
  • Regional outreach continued as EsSalud Ica delivered talks and community activities to dispel myths and accompany families with respect and dignity during procurement.
  • EsSalud’s executive president, Dr. Segundo Acho Mego, reaffirmed the institution’s leadership in transplants and its commitment to strengthening a donor culture.