By Marta Koblańska, January 26/2025, 14:30, Photo: Leomar Lunkes, Pixabay
The Day of Transplantation is celebrated in Poland on January 26. Transplantation represents, so far, the most modern way to save life when you need another human’s support. This can come from the closest family, a living person who wants to share a portion of the body, or a donor who lost his or her life autonomously.
Poland is at the top of bone marrow transplants, after having strongly increased the number of potential donors. This we owe to Doda, a Polish singer, who was shouting to save the life of a guy called Negral some time ago. By the way, Doda saved life of many Poles as in response to her appeal, thousands ran to register in the bone marrow bank, becoming donors. The Hematology branch is the most strict in terms of antiseptic and sanitary rules to secure acceptance of a transplant. It also requires highly-skilled personnel. Polish pioneer in bone marrow transplantation is Prof. Wiesław Jędrzejczak, who performed it in 1984. In 2025, the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity (WOŚP) wants to support children with blood cancer, whose number is increasing.
The recent success in Poland is the transplantation of hearts for young people in line with the incredible skills of Prof. Mariusz Kuśmierczyk of Warsaw Medical Centre. A huge achievement is the reactivation of the liver sharing program from live donors, which contributed substantially to an increase in the number of surgeries. This we owe to Prof. Michał Grąt of Warsaw Medical Centre. The liver is seen as the most difficult organ to transplant due to the number of needed vascular anastomoses. But the guru of Polish transplantology remains Prof. Wojciech Rowiński, whose enormous efforts smooth tensions between catholic ortodox message and medical evidence-based knowledge.
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