Gifts of life offered with their death to two women, 67 and 65 years old with severe vision problems, two men, whose families had the mental strength in their pain to make the decision to donate the corneas of their loved ones.
The 67-year-old submitted to corneal transplant ton the 1st of April at the BD University Ophthalmology Clinic of Papageorgiou Hospital.
The transplant team of the 2nd Ophthalmology Clinic of AUTh was invited to receive the transplant of a 67-year-old multiplier, who was hospitalized in the ICU of Giannitsa Hospital after extensive cerebral hemorrhage.
In fact, other organs of the donor were available for compatible recipients-patients in various areas of Greece, but also in Italy, while it was the first time that organs were taken at this hospital.
This is the second corneal transplant that was successfully completed in a few days, at Papageorgiou Hospital, as a few days ago a 65-year-old received her own gift of life, a transplant that gives her the opportunity to face life with optimism. The act of love was made possible thanks to the transplant donation of a 66-year-old donor, who was hospitalized at the Hospital “G. Chatzikosta “of Ioannina and passed away from automatic cerebral hemorrhage.
According to the Director of the 2nd University Ophthalmology Clinic, Nikolaos Ziakas, the idea of ​​organ donation is the highest form of humanism and altruism and the basic condition for the realization of the miracle of transplantation. He urges citizens to support the supply of tissues and organs, in order to increase donors in our country, which is still in the last positions of the European Union in the issue of organ donation.
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