A 13-year-old boy from Odesa region gave life to five seriously ill people

The tragedy in Odesa region turned into a chance for life for five people. A 13-year-old boy posthumously became an organ donor, saving seriously ill patients. His parents agreed to the transplantation after being diagnosed with brain death by doctors on December 4.

According to the Odesa Regional Military Administration, the teenager was hospitalized in Zakhariv Hospital on November 28 with acute cerebrovascular accident. The operation to remove the organs - heart, lungs, liver and kidneys - was carried out at the same hospital.

Five recipients received the boy's organs: the lungs were transplanted to a 35-year-old mother of many children from Mykolaiv region, the heart to an 8-year-old boy from Dnipropetrovs'k region, the kidneys to children from Lviv and Vinnytsia regions, and the liver to a 17-year-old girl from Kyiv.

The transplants were performed by teams from the Heart Institute, Okhmatdyt, Kyiv Nephrology Center, and Western Ukrainian Specialized Center. All operations were successful, and the patients' condition is stable.

The OVA emphasized that the decision of the child's parents helped change the fate of five families, giving their loved ones a new life.

Recently, the team of doctors performed a complex surgery on a young child with a rare and dangerous pathology - bilateral diaphragmatic hernia, which occurs in less than 1% of cases and is often incompatible with life.

Earlier, surgeons at the Odesa Oblast Children's Hospital performed surgery on one-year-old Andriy. The boy was diagnosed with a rare anomaly - a three-atrial heart.

The surgeons of the Odesa Oblast Children's Clinical Hospital also removed a spring from the esophagus of a six-month-old child. The foreign object was detected during an X-ray. Prior to that, the child had been treated for bronchitis and pneumonia in a district hospital for two weeks without success. During this time, the spring had practically grown into the wall of the esophagus. The object was removed with the help of endoscopy, which saved the child from a serious surgical intervention.

Ірина Глухова