Podcast in English
Text size
Bulgarian National Radio © 2024 All Rights Reserved

Five organ transplant patients given second chance to live

Photo: EPA/BGNES

Five people were given a chance to live after being transplanted. The donor is a 15-year old boy from Plovdiv who has been declared brain-dead. Two successful kidney transplants were performed at Aleksandrovska Hospital in Sofia, the recipients are men aged 46 and 56. A 44-year old patient was given a kidney at the Military Medical Academy. The lungs and the heart of the donor have been given over to Eurotransplant. The organs were explanted at the St. George Hospital in Plovdiv by a German medical team from Munich and Berlin. 



Последвайте ни и в Google News Showcase, за да научите най-важното от деня!
Listen to the daily news from Bulgaria presented in "Bulgaria Today" podcast, available in Spotify.

More from category

American Rory Miller presents recipes from Bulgarian villages in the USA and Canada

The book Eyeball It: Village Culinary Adventures by Rory Miller - an American living in Bulgaria - will be presented tonight in Chicago at the Magura Cultural Center (415 W Golf Rd # 7, Arlington Heights).  It is a collection of old recipes from..

published on 4/17/24 7:45 AM

A pistachio plantation has been planted for the first time in Bulgaria

A pistachio plantation has been planted for the first time in Bulgaria near Sandanski (Southwest Bulgaria). It spans 22 decares (2.2 hectares). The investment was made by a Sofia businessman, BNT reported .  The first harvest is expected within 2-3..

published on 4/17/24 6:10 AM

Traditional journalism in Bulgaria has lost the young audience

According to a 2023 National Statistical Institute study, more than 88% percent of households in Bulgaria have access to the Internet. Most users are online every day, and more than 95% are active on social networks. The share of people who read the..

published on 4/16/24 11:16 AM