Heart transplanted in Ukraine, first time in 15 years

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The director of the Heart Institute, Borys Todurov, has said that after a 15-year break, a heart transplantation was performed at the Kovel Regional Hospital.

“Heart transplantation. After a 15-year break, we did it. Joint team of the Heart Institute and Kovel Regional Hospital. The patient was brought in from Kyiv, because it was impossible to transport a donor heart to the capital,” Todurov, who participated in the operation, said.

According to the founder of the All-Ukrainian Donor Association IDonor NGO Iryna Zaslavets (who was also present at the operation), Borys Todurov, who arrived from Kyiv and worked with the Kovel doctors, transplanted the heart.

“They also transplanted a kidney there, and transported another one to Kyiv where transplantation surgery was performed at the Shalimov Institute,” Zaslavets added.

Ukraine’s Cabinet appointed deputy minister of health.

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