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Ionuț Anghel, a young man from Focșani whose life depended on a lung transplant, died on Monday. He needed Romania to reach an agreement with a clinic abroad, where the intervention could have taken place. He died after all the health ministers and the heads of the National Transplant Agency promised him help in the last three years.
Ionuț Anghel died at just 35 years old, after waiting for a lung transplant for the past three years.
In the last days of his life, he was admitted to a hospital in the Capital, after he began to feel worse and worse.
In early October, a “protest for life” took place in Focșani. Dozens of people took to the streets to ask the authorities for help.
Ionuț Anghel could be saved if the Romanian state concluded a transplant agreement with another country. The National Transplant Agency held talks with the Italian one, but the case was rejected because it was complicated.
Talks were then held with the French health authorities, but the young man was unable to cope with the disease and died.
He is not the first patient on the waiting list to die in the same conditions. In 2018, Călin Farcaș died, despite the fact that he managed to raise the money necessary for the operation.
In Romania, lung transplants can only be performed at St. Mary’s Hospital, but for a short time, and fewer than 10 such procedures have been performed so far. Furthermore, in our country it is not possible to intervene in patients in serious condition.
Publisher: GC
