Children are waiting for a heart transplant at the Warsaw University Clinical Center. Attached to an artificial chamber, they can only wait for an organ from a deceased donor – a heart that is suitable. There are many transplants in the clinic, but the demand is high.
Santa Claus has already visited the heart surgery clinic of the Medical University of Warsaw, but he still does not have the most important gift – the two-year-old Santa Claus has been waiting for a new heart for more than a year.
– His condition became so bad that it threatened his life, so he had to put an artificial heart chamber – says Maja Vegerska, Mikołaj's mother.
However, Santa's camera can't work indefinitely, it will eventually have to be replaced with a normal heart, just like the one Peter slept in the room next to Santa. Piotrus received this precious gift the day after Saint Nicholas Day. – He feels good, he is recovering, – says Piotrus' mother Martina Sosnovsky. – Piotrush was happier – he adds.
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This luck was due to the fact that the deceased donor's heart was the size and weight of Peter: it was too big for Nicholas to lie next to him. A teenager waiting for a bigger heart, which the boys need, is also connected to an artificial heart chamber, which he pushes in a wheelchair. He is waiting for his and Professor Mariusz Kuszmierczyk's wishes to be fulfilled.
– I wish that they enter the new year with a new heart and vision, because there are only a few days left. There is no time off for us, so if we get reports, there are no days off, we only do transplants. And this is our dream, – says prof. Mariusz Kushmierczyk, head of the Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Transplantation Surgery, Medical University of Warsaw.
Numbers that fill us with hope
Only this year, the university clinical center in Warsaw managed to transplant 32 hearts. Last year – 24.
– This is a very big number, which exceeded even my imagination, because I could not imagine that in two years this team – both children and adults – could perform so many heart transplants, including 11 heart transplants in children. to finish This year, 7 heart transplants from one ventricle. This is really a very good result – concludes Mariusz Kushmierczyk.
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Therefore, we save more and more seriously ill children. In the last two years, the number of heart transplants in children has increased by 150 percent. These are the numbers that give hope to Mikolaj's relatives, because the whole family is waiting for this transplant.
-I switch places with my husband every 24 hours, so it's a day off for both me and him. And I have an older son who is also here with us. And there is my grandmother. So we are all here together all year round, says Maja Vegerska.
