Sweet Jesus

IN a medical first for Spain, a baby has been born to a woman who received a uterus transplant.

The child, Jesus, was born to Tamara Franco in Barcelona, after the organ was donated to her by her sister in 2020 via a complicated operation that lasted more than 20 hours.

“It was a very tough but at the same time very beautiful process, and despite all of the risks it was worth it,” Franco explained. Franco, who is from Mur-

Health services resume

A PATERNA health centre has reopened after it was forced to

Miracle as baby is born to mother who received transplanted uterus

By Simon Hunter

cia, suffered from a condition called Rokitansky syndrome, which is when a woman is born with ovaries, but lacks a uterus and fallopian tubes.

It is a condition that approximately one in every 5,000 women suffer. Medical staff at the Clinic

Hospital in Barcelona chose Franco as their first case for the pioneering surgery.

After the procedure was completed, the challenge was for her to become pregnant.

After several attempts to implant embryos and one miscarriage, she finally fell pregnant last September.

But the pregnancy was not without its complications, and Franco suffered preeclampsia – high blood pressure that could have been caused by the medication she has to take to stop her body from rejecting the organ.

At the seven-month point of

Younger smokers

THE Valencian Health Ministry says that 17.6% of people aged 15 years and over classify themselves as regular smokers in the Community.

The average age when smoking starts among boys and girls is 14.1 years with females more likely to take up cigarettes. The main group featured people aged between 25 and 44 years, while previous studies had the principal age group for smokers between 45 and 64 years.

shut for 12 days following a series of violent attacks on medical staff.

Workers took 'sick leave' following a string of incidents at the La Coma Health Centre, resulting in its closure on May 10. The last straw for staff was a patient lunging at a doctor with a knife.

Services resumed at La Coma on May 22 with two police officers standing a few metres away from the entrance.

Two private security guards are now scanning arrivals and looking at the contents of bags and backpacks.

A person from the centre's administration team is also present at the front door to ask people about the reason for their visit and whether they had an appointment.

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