A second life chance was given to the 15 -year -old Dimitris after the liver transplant completed in Italy. He is hospitalized in an intensive care unit until he is found to respond positively to his body in the graft. Doctors are optimistic about his health.

Dimitris is under constant medical monitoring after a liver transplant in Turin and doctors are optimistic about his health.

“Doctors in Italy are very optimistic. Congratulations from Turin and this is a story of great success for the National Health System. In Greece we do not yet make transplants to children. This is going to change soon with the creation of the Onassis Transplant Center, where we will inaugurate it with the Prime Minister in October, “Adonis Georgiadis said.

The saving graft for 15 -year -old Dimitris was found within the 48 -hour period that he considers safe and the operation was successfully done.

Intensive Care, Andreas Eliades, told ERT that there is constant communication with doctors in Italy for 15 -year -old Dimitris. “They are very pleased. He accepted the graft. Of course we doctors, you know, we are always sparse. We will wait for the official 48 -hour post -operative course, but I think we are in a very good position, ”he said.

“We have great anxiety, joy, emotion. The emotions are mixed. He entered the operating room at 9pm in Greece and ended at 5 and fourth in the afternoon, “said 15 -year -old Dimitris, Ziozas Vasilis.

With rapid and coordinated actions by the EOM and the NHS it became humanly possible to stabilize the child’s state of health.

He was initially taken to the Metsovo Health Center, then to the Ioannina Hospital and then to the Rio Hospital, before a Turin airfield, where he was transported by a specially designed EKAB aircraft.