The decision was made just one week after Health Minister Florian Bodog said the lung transplant center did not have all the elements to function and a safe transplant could not yet be performed for the patient.
At that time, the minister specified that the center does not have any specialist employee who has performed a transplant on his own. Thus, Bodog mentioned that until he has all the guarantees that this center is competent in performing transplants, he will not let him go.
On Wednesday, however, the minister met with Mayor Gabriela Firea, who called for the re-evaluation of the Transplant Center, after the previous day, the AKH hospital in Vienna unilaterally terminated the protocol by which lung transplant interventions were performed on Romanians on the list.
After only one day, ie on Thursday, Deac transmitted that Wednesday’s revaluation showed that the conditions for accreditation are maintained.
“We were very upset when we were informed by the doctors in Vienna that they operated on the last patient, although they had five other Romanians on the list for lung transplantation. Yesterday’s re-evaluation (Wednesday – ed.) Showed that at St. Maria maintains the conditions from the accreditation for performing the lung transplant. Also, Igor Tudorache, the Romanian doctor from Hanover, said that he will come to operate in the Santa Maria Hospital “, specified Radu Deac.
Deac specified that the Romanian doctor Igor Tudorache agrees to come from Hanover to operate in the hospital in Bucharest. Asked in November 2016 if he would leave the Center in Germany to come and operate in Romania and for how long, Tudorache said he has this availability, but it depends on the situation.
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In order for the Romanian patients on the list in Vienna not to suffer until Sfanta Maria Hospital will finalize certain expired contracts, the president of the National Transplant Agency said that he sent a letter to Eurotransplant, requesting the extension of the agreement with Romania .
“I sent a letter to Eurotransplant requesting a one-year extension of the lung transplant agreement. The contract, which expires on March 31, was for six months. Now we have announced that St. Mary’s Hospital meets the conditions for the transplant. lung, as they were at the accreditation, so, after renewing the doctors’ contracts, they can decide the date when they start to perform a lung transplant “, added professor Deac.
We remind you that Re-evaluation of the Transplant Center at “Sfanta Maria” Hospital was disposed of after The AKH hospital in Vienna unilaterally terminated the protocol through which lung transplant interventions were performed on Romanians registered on the list.
Currently, about 80 Romanians are on the waiting list for a lung transplant.
Following the scandal regarding the lung transplant, the former Minister of Health Vlad Voiculescu announced on Friday that he will sue the mayor Gabriela Firea and Narcis Copca, the head of Sfanta Maria Hospital, after they accused him last year that he had blocked the lung transplant in Romania and that he had “sold the organs of the Romanians to foreigners”.
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