The dziennik.pl newspaper quoted a leading Polish transplant surgeon as saying that a team of Ukrainian doctors trained at the Silesian Center for Heart Diseases in Zabrze, southern Poland, “has successfully carried out Ukraine’s first lung transplant, together with Polish colleagues.”
The patient, a 57-year-old man, had been suffering from irreversible lung damage and was confined to his home for several years, according to the Polish transplant surgeon, Prof. Marian Zembala.
Less than a week after the transplant, which was performed on September 21 at a hospital in Lviv, western Ukraine, the patient took his first walk down a hospital corridor as he continues to undergo intensive rehabilitation, dziennik.pl reported.
Zembala hailed the news on Sunday as the latest example of how Polish-Ukrainian people-to-people ties were developing and how Polish doctors were ready to "help people in need" in other countries.
He added that transplant surgeons from the Silesian Center for Heart Diseases in Poland’s Zabrze were among “the leading teams in Europe for the quantity and quality of heart and lung transplants in adults and children.”
A total of 35 Ukrainian doctors, including cardiologists and cardiac surgeons from hospitals in the cities of Lviv and Kovel, were recently provided with six months of training in transplant surgery in Poland's Zabrze, Zembala said, as cited by dziennik.pl.
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Source: dziennik.pl