Aviation of the National Guard and police contributed to the urgent transportation of donor organs from Zaporozhye to Kiev
In Zaporozhye, a woman's life was interrupted by a stroke. Relatives of the deceased allowed the transplantation of certain organs, thanks to which it will be possible to save three other lives.
“It was decided to fly a National Guard plane to transport doctors from the capital to Zaporizhzhia as soon as possible. There they will receive donor organs and return to Kiev. When the operation to remove the donor organs is completed, the countdown will go to hours. You can not waste time, because recipients are already waiting for these organs,” said Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Anton Gerashchenko, who was present at the airport during the dispatch of a team of doctors from “Okhmatdyt” and the National Institute of Surgery and Transplantology named after O.O. Shalimova.
Anton Gerashchenko added that this is the second kidney transplant to a child from a deceased donor. Previously, transplants to children in Ukraine were done only from their relatives, but this was not always possible due to biological incompatibility.
Head of the Department of Transplantation and Liver Surgery of the Institute named after Shalimova Oleksandr Hrynenko noted: “It is very important that thanks to the aviation of the National Guard and the police, we got such an opportunity to arrive at the donor so quickly and then return to the recipients. It is the efficiency and high professionalism of transplant doctors that play a decisive role in this process.”
“Thank you to all doctors - anesthesiologists, surgeons - transplantologists, nurses, as well as pilots of the NGU, patrol police and journalists for your work for the good of life and health of Ukrainians! And I bring the warmest words of sympathy and gratitude to the relatives of the 42-year-old donor woman, who, having left this world, gave a chance for a decent life to three Ukrainians,” Anton Gerashchenko said.
Guard aviators say they are proud to be able to help with such an urgent cause. In Zaporizhia, a kidney transplant will be performed, and in Kiev, an 11-year-old boy will have a kidney transplant, as well as a liver for a woman diagnosed with cirrhosis.
