Organ transplants

A Liver, Kidney, and Cornea Surgery were Performed at the Clinical Center of Serbia A Single Donor Saves Five Lives

Five successful organ transplants were completed yesterday at the Clinical Center of Serbia (CCS), all from a single donor.

A liver from a Bulgarian donor has been transported to Germany as part of the cooperation with the organization for organ exchange Eurotransplant.

The organ was transported to Germany due to the lack of appropriate recipients on Bulgaria's national transplant waiting list, according to the press office of the Health Ministry.

Around 28,500 patients are currently waiting for organ transplants in Turkey, according to data from the Health Ministry.

Some 21,629 of these patients are waiting for a kidney transplant, with 4,268 having applied for the operation since the beginning of this year.

Some 58,195 patients have been receiving dialysis treatment in one of Turkey’s 853 dialysis centers.

A seven-year-old boy suffering from a serious liver ailment was flown to Germany for an organ transplant aboard the prime ministerial aircraft late on Thursday, Skai reported, noting that Antonis Samaras gave the order for the transfer once he was informed of the critical condition of the boy's health.

Greece is at the bottom of the European Union scale as regards organ transplants due to a lack of public awareness and inefficient funding, experts told a press conference on Wednesday.

Bulgaria and Greece will set up a regional network for exchange of organs for transplantation.

This was agreed at a meeting between Bulgaria's Health Minister Tanya Andreeva and her Greek counterpart Adonis Georgiadis.

The Balkan transplantation network would facilitate the organ exchange among the neighbouring countries.