In the hospital at Banach in Warsaw, a transplant transplant. There has never been such a crowd and such a movement. It was enough for the Ministry of Health to change one small recipe, and the liver ready for transplantation goes immediately where they are most needed.
– There are a lot of these transplants because I see after the ward – says Marcin Wiśniewski from Łódź, who had a liver transplant. Reason? Rare PSC genetic disease.
On the bed next to him lies Mr. Dariusz Wiraszka, attacked by hepatitis C. In turn, sisters – Mrs. Emilia and Anna – came from Kashubia, from Lębork. Mrs. Anna will give her sister half her liver. There is a need because Mrs. Anna's sister is fighting bile ducts.
Huge movement in the Clinic of General, Transplant and Liver Surgery UCK WUM can be seen in numbers. In January, 42 transplants of this organ were made there, i.e. twice as much as in January last year.
It should be noted that last year was record -breaking. What happened now? As the Minister of Health explains, “liver allocation” has changed since the new year. – From the beginning of this year we have been introducing some changes in organs allocation. I'm talking about the liver here. Changes, which are primarily aimed at putting the patient in the center – said Izabela Leszczyna in January.
Success of Polish doctors. “Two years ago we dreamed of 200 transplants. Now it's not 200, it's over 300”Marek Nowicki/Fakty TVN
What does the change introduced by the ministry mean?
In the center, the patient, not the center that treats the patient. This means that the organs downloaded to the transplant from deceased donors go to specific, hardest sick people.
– Earlier it was that the system was focused on centers, i.e. to ensure the development of liver transplantation in Poland, such liver transplant offers were divided between centers equally. It was very much needed to develop liver transplantation in Poland. As it developed, it can be illustrated with numbers – explains prof. Michał Grąw, national consultant in the field of clinical transplantology, head of general, transplant and liver surgery clinic.
At the moment we have in Poland as many as 9 liver transplantation centers, in which over 600 of them were transplanted last year. This is the excellent result and the success of all these hospitals. Now, however, the point is that the least aside as possible people die in a queue waiting for such a transplant. That is why the liver is no longer separated evenly, but more goes where the most seriously patients are.
Source of the main photo: Facts of TVN