(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 14 - The first organ donated by Romania and transplanted in Italy thanks to the agreement between the National Transplant Center and the AgentiaNationala de Transplant (ANT) of the Balkan country is the heart of a 17-year-old young man.
The donation, explains a press release from the CNT, saved the life of an Italian patient suffering from congenital heart disease.
The agreement, signed at the end of March, mainly concerns cooperation in the field of lung donation and transplantation, a sector in which the Romanian transplant system is not self-sufficient. Italy undertakes to welcome five Romanian patients with severe pulmonary insufficiency to its waiting lists every year and in exchange the ANT provides Italian transplant centers as many lungs of Romanian deceased donors, as well as offering other organs that do not have compatible receipts in the country of origin. The transplant carried out with the cooperation of Romania is the third carried out in 2021 thanks to a donation from abroad, after the transplantation of a liver from a Greek donor and a heart made available by France.while there were two organs (both kidneys) that it was not possible to transplant in Italy due to the absence of compatible receivers and that were eventually offered to Switzerland. In 2020, however, there were 7 organs received from abroad (from Switzerland, Greece and Malta) and 11 from Italy (to Switzerland, Germany and Spain).
"The one with Romania - reads the note - is the fourth bilateral agreement signed by Italy, after Malta, Greece and Serbia. In addition, the National Transplant Network joins the" Foedus "multilateral cooperation system which has as its main objective the facilitation of the exchange of organs in excess between the member countries of the European Union. To these agreements is added an agreement between the Autonomous Province of Bolzano and Austria for the sharing of organs and patients on the waiting list ". (HANDLE).
