Rotary's adopted children's clinic in Macedonia performs successful liver transplant
The new children's clinic in Skopje Macedonia, which was established early this year with the help of several Rotary clubs (under the leadership of Springfield South Rotarian Lee Malany) and Hospital Sisters Mission Sisters Outreach, has performed its first liver transplant!
Here's an excerpt from an email report to Lee Malany from Lazar Zakovski in Macedonia:
The University Children's Surgery Clinic has successfully completed the first liver transplant on the 23rd of September.
The case was a 6 month old boy, that was accepted at the clinic in a terminal
phase, with heavy cirrhosis on the liver. A liver transplant was the only
solution that would save the life of the child. The organ donor was the mother
of the boy, who has donated 20% of the liver, states the announcement from the
clinic.
Because of the complexity of the operation and the difficult post-operative
condition of the patient, the boy is currently in intensive care, under
mechanic ventilation and 24-hour surveillance by KARIL doctors and the staff
from the children's clinic.
The transplant was completed with the help of a team of doctors from the MERCUR
hospital in Zagreb, as well as the complete staff from the children's surgery
clinic, led by the director Dr. Risto Simeonov and the coordinator Dr.
Vladimir Cadikovski.
The Clinic for Children's surgery successfully performed a kidney transplant in
2009 for a child patient.
We will not stop here. With the equipment that we received from the Ministry
of Health and the donation from the US Ministry of Defense, the US Embassy and
the Netherlands Embassy, we are ready to face the biggest challenges within the
field of children's surgery. Within the next 4 months we have planned three
kidney transplants, in order to justify the funds that we received from FZOM,
states the announcement from Risto Simeonov, the clinic's director.