The launch of liver transplants in children and in Greece was announced by the Minister of Health Adonis Georgiadis, on the occasion of successful intervention in which 15 -year -old Dimitris from Metsovo was submitted to a Turin hospital.
As he told ERT, The first childish liver transplants They will begin in October at the New Onassis Transplant Center, in the presence of the Prime Minister.
Dimitris suffered a serious heat stroke during a walk in the Aspropotamos Haliki, in combination with the pre -existing disease of the Holy One. He was initially transferred to the Metsovo Health Center and then to the hospitals of Ioannina and Patras. Last Monday he was taken by air in Italy, as his condition deteriorated due to acute liver failure.
The transplant lasted about 8.5 hours and took place by distinguished professor Renato Romanioli, Responsible for LE Molinette Hospital Transplant Center. According to the medical staff, the adolescent’s postoperative course is positive, but for a safe prognosis it will take a few more 24 -hour follow -up.
THE Minister of Health expressed his satisfaction For the coordinated mobilization of the National Health System, Emphasizing: “The NHS managed to manage an extremely critical situation, from Dimitris’ stabilization in Metsovo and Ioannina, to its interdisciplinary in Rio and finally its safe transfer to Italy by plane by EKAB, donated by the Stavros Foundation.”
He also added that he was found from the first moment over the case and characterized the whole weekend business “Which fills us with joy, optimism and pride in the national health system.”