Organ transplantation

Tu?çe Albayrak, a 22-year-old Turkish student who was killed while defending two German girls from being harassed last year, now ?lives? in five different people through a series of organ transplants.

Tu?çe Albayrak, a 22-year-old Turkish student who was killed while defending two German girls from being harassed last year, now ?lives? in five different people through a series of organ transplants.

BELGRADE - The first surgical procedure to fit a patient in Serbia with an artificial heart has been successfully completed at the Clinical Centre of Serbia (KCS) on Friday.

The mechanical organ that should help patient through to the biological heart transplant was surgically inserted into Vladimir Petkovic, aged 40, from Pancevo.

A two-year-old Turkish boy, whose intended heart transplant surgery in Germany was rejected because he had suffered brain damage, has been returned to Turkey by his parents “only to donate his organs.”

Muhammet Eren Dönmez was taken to Giessen University’s pediatric service unit for a heart transplant after a heart donor could not be found in Turkey.

A liver from a Bulgarian donor has been transported to Germany as part of the cooperation with the organization for organ exchange Eurotransplant.

The organ was transported to Germany due to the lack of appropriate recipients on Bulgaria's national transplant waiting list, according to the press office of the Health Ministry.

Around 28,500 patients are currently waiting for organ transplants in Turkey, according to data from the Health Ministry.

Some 21,629 of these patients are waiting for a kidney transplant, with 4,268 having applied for the operation since the beginning of this year.

Some 58,195 patients have been receiving dialysis treatment in one of Turkey’s 853 dialysis centers.

A seven-year-old boy suffering from a serious liver ailment was flown to Germany for an organ transplant aboard the prime ministerial aircraft late on Thursday, Skai reported, noting that Antonis Samaras gave the order for the transfer once he was informed of the critical condition of the boy's health.

Greece is at the bottom of the European Union scale as regards organ transplants due to a lack of public awareness and inefficient funding, experts told a press conference on Wednesday.

A Bulgaria-based clinic was reportedly involved in an illegal organ transplants ring dismantled by Israeli police.

The crime ring was uncovered in an operation conducted with the cooperation of Interpol, according to reports of the Bulgarian National Radio (BNR).

Bulgaria and Greece will set up a regional network for exchange of organs for transplantation.

This was agreed at a meeting between Bulgaria's Health Minister Tanya Andreeva and her Greek counterpart Adonis Georgiadis.

The Balkan transplantation network would facilitate the organ exchange among the neighbouring countries.