📋 Tender Overview
Through the Institute of Organ and Fabric Transplants of the Armed Forces and National Police - ITOTThe roles that execute the armed forces are not limited only to protect the security of the country, they also save lives transplating organs and tissues. Thanks to their avant -garde medical infrastructure, highly trained personnel and efficient logistics, they play a crucial role in organ donation and transplantation, providing hope to patients who need a second chance.
Precisely, the governing entity that leads this mission is the Institute of Bodies and Tissue Transplants (ITOT) of the Armed Forces and National Police that Norma, organizes, coordinates, implements and investigates on this process for the benefit of the members of the Armed Forces , of the National Police and their direct dependent relatives.
Currently, the Central Military Hospital of the Army and the Naval Medical Center of the Navy have capacities to carry out corneas transplants. In fact, at the Naval Medical Center you can also perform kidney and liver transplants.
From 1995 to 2024, 137 patients were benefited by renal transplantation: 67 were patients from the Central Hospital of the National Police, 40 of the Naval Medical Center, 10 of the Central Hospital of the Air Force and 20 of the Central Military Hospital. Likewise, 7 cornea transplants was carried out in this period at the Naval Medical Center.
In a context where military medicine has reached a level of specialization that allows it to perform high complexity procedures, ITOT represents an expression of integrity of military healing. It was created in 1995 as a transplant unit and, in 1999, it rises to institute category.
Today, the ITOT, through its Department of Procura de Organs, manages and articulates with the different hospitals of the Armed Forces, National Police, Minsa, Essalud and private clinics, when potential donors are presented, to activate the operations of donation and transplantation.
The National Government and the Ministry of Defense, reaffirm their commitment to life through the Institute of Organ and Fabric Transplants. Our commitment is with the health and hope of those who expect a second chance. Donating organs is giving life, and our institutions are ready to make that miracle possible.