Landmark achievement at Laiko Hospital: Four liver transplants in Greece

In an unprecedented aesculapian accomplishment for Greece, the surgical squad of Professor Giorgos Sotiropoulos, unneurotic with the anesthesiology squad led by Dr. Aikaterini Lampadariou, successfully carried retired 4 liver transplants betwixt Friday, September 26, and Monday, September 29, astatine Laiko General Hospital.

The Health Minister extended lukewarm congratulations to the infirmary medication and each aesculapian and nursing unit involved, stressing that the Ministry volition proceed to actively enactment the further improvement of coagulated organ transplantation successful the country.

Minister’s Statement

“For the archetypal clip successful Greece, and successful a feat that is uncommon adjacent among large transplant centers abroad, 4 consecutive liver transplants were performed astatine Laiko General Hospital. This was made imaginable done the coordinated efforts of a ample aesculapian and nursing team: anesthesiologists, surgeons, hematologists, intensivists, hepatologists, transplant coordinators, operating country and ICU nurses, ward staff, and administrative personnel.

All 4 transplant patients person been successfully extubated and are successful precise bully condition. Three of them person already been discharged from the ICU.

Our deepest gratitude goes archetypal and foremost to the families of the donors, who offered the eventual acquisition of life. Thanks besides to section transplant coordinators, ICU unit who cared for the donors, organ retrieval teams, the National Emergency Center (EKAB), and of people the Hellenic Transplant Organization for their captious coordination.

On behalf of the Ministry of Health, I congratulate the medication of Laiko Hospital and each the aesculapian unit for their singular effort and publication to the National Health System. With targeted actions, we volition proceed to enactment the maturation of coagulated organ transplantation successful Greece.”