The Serbian Ministry of Health informed the public about a successful liver transplant performed on a 28-year old female patient hospitalised in the clinic for gastroenterology and hepatology of the Clinical Centre of Serbia. The transplant was carried out in the Military Medical Academy (VMA) last night.
The team of surgeons who performed the transplant was headed up by Bozina Radevic, a national coordinator for the organ transplant programme, and consisted of VMA Principal Miodrag Jevtic and VMA Surgery Principal Nebojsa Stankovic.
The patient was treated and prepared for the transplant by head of the liver transplant team at the Clinical Centre of Serbia Rada Jesic.
This is the first liver transplant carried out in Serbia in the last ten years and it represents great success for Serbian health service and a good example of team work of Serbian health institutions, reads the statement of the Ministry of Health.