[size=75:3sbz1mp1]novinite 2 January 2010

May seem a bit gory this one but it's a fact of life, and it shows the progress that the health service is making in Bulgaria

Bulgaria Doctors Carry out 35 Organ Transplants in 2009

A total of 35 successful organ transplants were performed by Bulgarian doctors in 2009.

The organs came from 11 donors, according to a Saturday’s announcement of the Bulgarian Health Ministry.

The Ministry has announced that last organ donor of 2009 was a 25-year-old man from Veliko Tarnovo who received a hemorrhage of the brain around noon on December 31.

Four successful transplants – of two kidneys, a liver, and a heart - were carried out by Bulgarian medics around the country with the organs from deceased young man on January 1, and on the morning of January 2.

The Health Ministry says that together with the Transplants Executive Agency it is going to further its efforts in the improvement of transplant operations.

[size=75:1w84jb6d]Focus 2 January 2010

Four successful transplants were carried out on the first two days of 2010 in Bulgaria, Ministry of Healthcare announced.
The fourth operation finished early on Saturday morning. The second kidney was transplanted in Lozenets university hospital. The other three operations finished successfully on Friday. A 22-year-old woman received a new heart in Saint Ekaterina university hospital. A 53-year-old woman had a liver transplant in Military Medical Academy and a 33-year-old woman – a kidney transplant in Lozenets university hospital. The organ donor is a 25-year-old man from the northern Bulgarian city of Veliko Tarnovo. On December 31 at noon he had bleeding in the brain. This case raises the number of organ donors in Bulgaria in 2009 to 11 and the successful transplants – to 35.
The Ministry of Healthcare and Executive Agency for Transplantation will continue their efforts to develop these activities.