By Marta Koblańska, January 26/2025, 14:30, Photo: Leomar Lunkes, Pixabay
Today we celebrate the Day of Transplantation. It is, so far, the most modern way to save life when you need an other human support. This can come from your closest family, alive person who want to share with you a portion of its body or a donor who lost 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, Polish singer, who was shouting loudly to save 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 run to register in the bone marrow bank becoming donors. Hematology branch is the most strict in terms of antiseptic and sanitary rules to secure accepting 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 Orchestry of Christmas Charity (WOŚP) wants to support children with blood cancer whose number is increasing.
The recent success in Poland is transplantation of hearts for young people in line with incredible skills of prof. Mariusz Kuśmierczyk of Warsaw Medical Centre. Huge achievement is the reactivation of liver sharing program from alive donors what contributed substantially to an increase in the number of surgeries. This we owe to prof. Michał Grąt of Warsaw Medical Centre. Liver is seen as the most difficult organ to transplant due to the number of needed vascular anastomosis. But guru of Polish transplantology is prof. Wojciech Rowiński whose enormous efforts smoothen tensions between catholic ortodox message and medical evidence-based knowledge.
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