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Last year, 467 transplants were performed in Ukraine: Ministry of Health

In 12 months of 2024, Ukrainian specialists performed 467 organ transplants. 311 kidneys, 93 livers and 63 hearts were transplanted, informs press service of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine.

In 2024, 44 medical institutions applied for transplants. After inspections, the National Health Service of Ukraine concluded contracts with 40 hospitals. As part of the Medical Guarantee Program, such operations are free for patients in Ukraine.

In 2024, 467 organ transplants were performed: 311 kidneys, 93 livers, and 63 hearts were transplanted. The largest number of such operations were performed in the First Medical Association of Lviv, the National Institute of Surgery and Transplantology named after O. AT. Shalimov, as well as at the Heart Institute of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine.

The trend of transplants from deceased donors is especially positive, the share of which is more than 65% of the total number. The largest number of cases of brain death, which allowed for organ transplantation, were registered in medical institutions of Kyiv, Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk.

Also, during this period, 376 hematopoietic stem cell transplants were performed, 54 of them for children. These procedures are carried out in 11 medical centers, among which the largest number of transplants were carried out by the Okhmatdit Medical Center, the Clinical Center of Oncology, Hematology, Transplantology and Palliative Care of the Cherkasy Regional Council, as well as the Kyiv Center of Nephrology and Dialysis.

 

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