Wielkopolska sojusznikiem transplantacji
Region of Wielkopolska – favourably disposed to transplantation

Summary/Abstract: Fourteen months ago the Region of Wielkopolska clearly supported the idea of organ donation, by signing the letter of intention and entering the „Partnership for transplantation” programme. The Region’s authorities responded in this way to the Ministry of Health appeal concerning the implementation of the project, with a view to raising the social awareness regarding the role and the importance of transplantology. The things have changed beyond recognition since then, both in the medical sciences, and in the social attitude to this issue. The physicians have progressed much in their fight to save human life, as exemplified by the Heart Transplantation Programme in the Cardiosurgery Department of the University Hospital No. 1 in Poznan. This is what – the everyday work of many physicians, constant perfecting of their craft, as well as conversations with the donors’ families, getting ready for „the second life”, i.e., life after transplantation – is all about. The whole chain of diverse emotions and difficult decisions, still unduly accompanied by social mistrust.

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