“If the non-genital needs a child to have a liver transplant (which we all avoid) he will go to Italy,” the president of the National Transplant Organization, professor of Pathology-Gastroenterology of EKPA, told FM. George Papatheodoridis, referring to the issue that has erupted with acute hepatitis. As he clarified, in Greece there is already a transnational agreement with the respective National Transplant Organization of Italy through the National Transplant Organization. “Children from Greece who need transplants go there. “They are mainly channeled to the Bambino Gesu Hospital in Rome, or to the Ismet Hospital, which is a large branch of the American University and is located in Palermo.” In Greece, points out the president of EOM, very few child liver transplants have been performed in the 2000s at the Hippocratic Hospital of Thessaloniki.
The procedures for the implementation of the National Transplant Plan are rapid
“We have never had a good pediatric liver transplant program. Liver transplantation is a complex process in which too many bodies are involved, too many medical specialties, it requires a lot of organization and certainly at the moment a program can not be set up on an urgent basis and work successfully. At the moment, an attempt is being made for a general reorganization of the transplants of the solid organs in our country. There is a very good National Plan for transplants, which has been presented since last summer to the Prime Minister, to the Ministry of Health, to the opposition parties. There is a common acceptance and the implementation processes are already working at a fast pace. We need new laws and some procedures, so we are not ready at this stage to anticipate the urgency of the matter, if necessary. “said Mr. Papatheodoridis.
Liver transplants are performed by both cadaveric and living donors (usually by the parents of these children), as Mr. Papatheodoridis said, pointing out, however, that in Greece there are no transplants from living donors.
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