Comuns MEP Jaume Asens has been discharged from the hospital after receiving his mother’s kidney in a successful transplant operation, as he himself explained on the social network Instagram.
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“I have left the hospital after a few difficult days, convalescing after a delicate operation: a kidney transplant, my mother’s. For now, everything is progressing well, waiting to see how the body responds and if any rejection appears. Right now I still have anemia and very low defenses, but progressing, little by little,” said the Comuns leader.
Asens said this operation made him face two certainties: “The fragility of life and the non-negotiable importance of public healthcare.” “At that threshold, one becomes aware of something essential: life is not invulnerable, nor guaranteed,” he added.
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The MEP takes advantage of the message to make a political reflection: “We do not choose illness, but we can try to understand what it reveals to us. Perhaps it is not about denying suffering, but about looking at it without surrendering to it. About holding on, even there. And from there, also, taking a stand: not forgetting those who live that fragility in extreme conditions, in Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, Iran and so many other places affected by violence and the logic of an international order that normalizes the pain of some while protecting the privilege of others. An order that today is embodied, without disguise, by Trump and Netanyahu with Europe as a sidekick.”
