“311 kidneys, 93 livers and 63 hearts: a record number of transplants were carried out in Ukraine In 11 months of 2024, 467 organ transplants and 376 stem cell transplants were carried out in Ukraine. More than 3,000 patients are still waiting for life-saving operations.”, — write on: unn.ua
“For 11 months of 2024, Ukrainian doctors performed 467 organ transplants: 311 kidneys, 93 livers, and 63 hearts. More than 65% of them were transplants from deceased donors,” the Ministry of Health reported.
The largest number of transplants were performed in the First Medical Association of Lviv, the National Institute of Surgery and Transplantology named after O. AT. Shalimov and Heart Institute of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine.
“Also, 376 hematopoietic stem cell transplants were performed, of which 54 were for children. This is 15% more compared to the same period last year. The leaders are the Kyiv National Cancer Institute, the Cherkasy Clinical Oncology Center, and the Kyiv City Nephrology and Dialysis Center. To the institutions that perform stem cell transplantation, this year the State University “National Scientific Center of Radiation Medicine, Hematology and of oncology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine,” the ministry added.
In addition, the first allogeneic transplantation was performed at the National Cancer Institute, and currently such operations are performed in four institutions of Ukraine.
“In the four years since transplantation has been actively developing in Ukraine, more than 1,500 organ transplants have been performed. Currently, more than 3,000 patients are waiting for life-saving transplantation operations,” the Ministry of Health summarized.
We will remind
The other day there was an important event for the medical community and patients waiting for a transplant. Thanks to the consent of five families to posthumous donation, doctors saved 17 lives in two days.