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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I support the rapporteur’s text, since it specifies that donations of tissues and cells should continue to be unpaid and voluntary, while clarifying the fact that it is fair to make good the expenses incurred in donating, including travel costs, medical expenses and loss of earnings.
Unfortunately, at present, cord blood is only collected in 1% of all births in the European Union, since many hospitals still do not point out to women in labour the value of such donations, in order to avoid shouldering the costs of managing the material collected. In my own case, when my two children were born, it was not possible for my wife to donate the umbilical cord.
For these reasons, the Commission should pay special attention to the donation of cord blood, from which stem cells are derived. These are indispensable in the treatment of diseases, including childhood illnesses, and we must not continue to disregard the importance of their use.
It is therefore vital to create this European database of tissues and cells, which could be used by all hospital institutions, whether public or private."@en1
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