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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I, too, wish to thank my co-authors and, in particular, Mr Liese, who spoke just now, and Mr Peterle, for this very satisfactory initiative on the donation of cord blood – a donation of life, then – which has enabled extraordinary and significant medical advances to be made over the last 20 years thanks to the transplantation of its plentiful supply of stem cells. They are used today in the treatment of more than 80 diseases, and especially of cancers – brain cancer, blood cancer, leukaemia, lymphoma – anaemia, autoimmune diseases, certain rare diseases, and the list keeps on growing.
Despite this, just 1% of this cord blood, which is so full of possibility and promise, is preserved in Europe, 1% of more than 15 million births per year. In addition, there are huge differences between countries: 7 000 registered donations in Belgium, and 7 000 in France, even though its population is six times that of its neighbour to the north.
We therefore call on the Commission to launch, in conjunction, of course, with the 27 Member States – as the Commissioner mentioned – an information campaign aimed at parents-to-be, so that these donations become a reality, if not a necessity. Well-informed mothers in Europe will clearly want to give life twice.
That is why I, and why we, think it is crucial, over and above the uniform transposition of this 2004 directive on the quality and safety of tissues and cells, which has already been mentioned, and which is the subject of our second question, that Europe strongly encourages the Member States to simplify their maternity hospital accreditation procedures and systems. The number of maternity hospitals authorised to preserve and store cord blood is still too small, and the figures prove it. We can no longer allow the passionate debate – which we are not here to resolve – and controversy surrounding the purpose and use of this blood – whether it ends up in public or private blood banks – to actually stop us from talking about this technique, and this is the appeal launched by Professor Eliane Gluckman, who has dedicated her entire career to making the donation of cord blood a donation of life."@en1
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