Ukrainian has donor heart transplantation for the first time in Poland

Iryna Zaslavets, Development Director of the First Medical Association of Lviv, shared this information, Espreso.West reports.

"We met Yulia in 2017. She was the character of my materials on transplantology. It was called Heartless. By that time deputies and officials shifted responsibility for the non-functioning system to each other without doing anything. Julia hoped to get an operation in once friendly Belarus. "Don't they have a heart for their people?," Yulia's mother said about those who deprived her child of a chance for life," Iryna told.

At that time, transplants were practically not performed in Ukraine, and it was impossible to wait for a heart. Little by little, the situation began to change in 2019, and every year more and more hearts began to be held. However, the war changed the plans of many Ukrainians.

As National Movement For Transplantation reports, this is the first operation to transplant organs to citizens of Ukraine in Poland. Previously, such operations have not been performed, because Ukraine is not a member of any international organization that coordinates transplants in different countries.

"Since the beginning of war in Ukraine, many patients were left without medical care, and many patients in need of organ transplants. And now the citizens of Poland again showed their greatest manifestation of humanity. When, after her death, the heart of a Pole approached our girl from Ukraine, they transplanted it without hesitation and saved her life," the statement reads.

Yuliya Skip, 36 years old, received a new organ on April 21. Due to a rare form of cardiomyopathy, her heart could not fully provide blood supply to the body. The woman had to wait for years for a donor and an operation.

The heart transplant was a success. Now she is waiting for a long period of recovery and rehabilitation.