Ukraine witnessed 23 human heart transplants during wartime
Amidst the ongoing war in Ukraine, missile threats and Russian marches on the country’s cities, a successful heart transplant was performed in the capital Kyiv of a 6-year-old girl, according to a network “CNNNewsletter.
During the operation, which took place on Sunday, the girl received the heart of another 4-year-old who had died of brain death, according to the Heart Institute of the Ukrainian Ministry of Health.
The institute said that this is the first time that a heart transplant has been performed in Ukraine, transferred from a child to a child, especially since the first child who underwent a heart transplant in Ukraine was 13-year-old Maxim Davyduk, who had received the heart of a 54-year-old man. He died of a stroke in an emergency hospital in Lviv in September 2021.
Mother of deceased 4-year-old boy gave her consent for heart transplant to 6-year-old girl. First operation of this kind in Ukraine. Later, she was able to listen to the beating heart in the girl’s chest. Incredible that this is happening in country in the midst of war. pic.twitter.com/GaWPZqGi1T
— Maria Avdeeva (@maria_avdv) July 10, 2023
The institute added: “The operation was unique, given that the donor and recipient were very young children, and the operation required more effort by the doctors.”
“The operation went well and the new heart is beating in the girl’s chest,” Oksana Dmitrievna, head of the subcommittee on modern medical technologies and transplantation development in the Ukrainian parliament, said in a Facebook post.
She added: “It is very moving that the mother of a deceased child comes to listen to the heartbeat of her child in the chest of another person (..) my eyes shed tears from this picture.”
Since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, nine thousand civilians have been killed, including more than 500 children, according to the United Nations, despite the significant strengthening of air defense since the beginning of the year.
The battles are currently concentrated in the eastern part of the country, but Kiev and other cities are still subject to Russian air strikes through missiles and drones frequently.
Ukraine’s Heart Institute said the country had seen 23 human heart transplants during wartime.
He added, in statements to CNN, on Monday, that the surgical operations will continue as soon as the warning systems are activated due to the presence of air strikes, explaining that the operation cannot be stopped even with an attack on the city.
But if the surgery does not start, the team of doctors and the patient wait for the siren to stop before the surgery begins.
The Heart Institute has purchased special generators to be able to monitor operations during power outages, and it also has an independent water source.
The institute said that during the war it received more patients suffering from cardiovascular diseases.
2023-07-11 06:59:24
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