In the capital of Ukraine, Kyiv, doctors conducted an organ transplantation from a deceased four-year-old girl under the threat of Russian shelling. This procedure saved the lives of three other children.

This was the first case of such a transplantation in the history of the medical facility, reported the National Children's Specialized Hospital "Okhmatdyt".

The four-year-old patient from the Zhytomyr region was brought to the hospital at the end of last week. On the night of July 10, doctors confirmed the death of her brain.

The medical team, along with psychologists, obtained consent from the girl's family for posthumous organ donation.

"This decision was heroic. It saved three lives at once," emphasized the doctors.

After obtaining consent from the family, the meticulous work of specialists began. Difficulties arose in ensuring logistics, selecting recipients, and organizing surgeries during air raid alerts.

Thanks to the Unified State Information System for Transplantation, the doctors were able to find children who would receive the organs. Two of them were already at "Okhmatdyt".

Among the recipients was a 16-year-old girl with Wilson-Konovalov disease, who required an urgent liver transplant. According to the doctors, she was in intensive care, and a new organ was her only chance for survival.

Additionally, kidneys were transplanted to a 14-year-old boy who had spent over seven months in the hospital on dialysis.

The specialists from the Ministry of Health's Heart Institute also transplanted a heart to a 12-year-old girl with a critical status.

Overall, the surgeries lasted more than 13 hours, with doctors continuing their work despite sirens and night explosions. This was crucial, as the success of transplantation is highly dependent on minimizing the time organs spend outside the body.

"Our recipients were in very critical conditions. I am sincerely grateful to the parents for understanding that their decision gave three children a chance at life," shared the transplant surgeon from "Okhmatdyt", Oleg Hodyk.

Previously, Kyiv doctors had saved a three-year-old boy named Bohdan, who was born without bile ducts – he underwent a liver transplant from his father.