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After the child’s life was extinguished in the Kaunas clinics of the Lithuanian Health Sciences Hospital on Thursday morning, the parents were strong enough to make a special decision and donate the child’s organs for donation. This noble decision from the donor family was a hopeful message for another family whose child was waiting for a small heart transplant.
It is in such clashes of human destiny that the sensitivity and deep meaning of organ donation come to the fore, when the loss of one person brings a hopeful joy difficult to describe to another family. This fire of hope is special because it has not been known for a long time when it can ignite. This time, hope is given to the family at a tense moment in the country where all opportunities are disappearing, but also at a special time of the year when miracles can be believed. There is no doubt that a sincere family, able to thank their donor family with just an anonymous letter, will view this pre-holiday event as a miracle for the rest of their lives.
The implanted heart was delivered to the Santara clinics of the Vilnius University Hospital on Wednesday evening. Due to the extremely short ischemia time, the heart is usually transported from one hospital to another by helicopter, but this time due to unfavorable weather conditions, the heart was transported by ambulance, which was accompanied by a police team to ensure the speed of the patient. trip.
“Child donors are very rare, but this is the second time this month that grieving parents have decided to help other children in distress and their parents. This time, the Lithuanian citizen’s heart was good, but the situation also is exceptional because the organ donor, like the recipient, was a minor. We are happy that during such a difficult period for the family, the parents acted with nobility and decided to give hope to the other family “, says Artūras Bagotyrius, Director of the National Transplant Office of the Ministry of Health.
During the year 2020, until December 16. Nine heart transplant operations were performed. 46 recipients, 3 of them children, are waiting for a heart donor.
This is the second time this week that organ transplants have been performed despite the tense and difficult conditions of a pandemic. Doctors and all other professionals involved in the transplant process do their best to ensure that transplants are performed as routinely as possible.
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