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27Jun/18

Why Spain has more organ donors than any other country in the world – Quartz

Why Spain has more organ donors than any other country in the world  Quartz

Five years ago, Sergio Cobos was just trying to stay alive. He had battled with kidney disease for years, and things were getting worse. His legs would fill with fluid and he was plagued by cramps. A previously athletic man of 36, he should have been in sound physical shape. But now he struggled to get up the stairs. Then everything changed—he had a kidney transplant. Today, as he strolls out of a botanical glasshouse in a park by La Chopera, on the Manzanares river in Madrid, he seems healthy and relaxed, dressed in a bright tracksuit and trainers. When Cobos’s doctor told him that his kid…