Completed today, Sunday at the People’s Hospital urgent liver transplant to a 44 -year -old patient with Acute liver failure.

The transplant was done by the team of Surgery Professor George Sotiropoulos.

As the Minister of Health announced Adonis Georgiadis In a post on X, the patient was transferred yesterday to the First Gastrointestinal Clinic of the NCSR at the People’s Hospital after 8 -hour admission and hospitalization at KAT Hospital.

This transplantation was the 3rd liver transplant performed Within the week at the People’s Hospital.

Since the beginning of the year, 21 liver transplants have been performed in the folk, three of them in patients with acute liver failure.

“Last year we had made 24 liver transplants in the folk and it was the record for Athens, and this year 03.08. And we’re already 21! ”The Minister of Health says and continues:

“Since I took over in the ministry and we have started the liver program with the creation of the Surgical Clinical Transplantation of Liver and Surgery of the NCSR, we have already done 45 liver transplants in 1.5 years in the Laikos !!! It is a shocking performance that proves that we want it we can achieve difficult goals and save many lives. “