POSTHUMOUS DONATION AND ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION IN UKRAINE DURING THE WAR

Abstract

One of the leading directions of the development of Ukrainian medicine during the last few years is organ transplantation, because it is a treatment method that remains the last hope when all other methods are already ineffective. However, despite the successes in this area, there are also problematic moments, the main of which is the lack of donor organs. And the reason for this shortage is considered to be the disapproval of relatives for the removal of organs, due to the low level of awareness of the procedure for establishing brain death. But, despite this, as well as in spite of the difficult working conditions during the war, Ukrainian transplantology is constantly developing, as evidenced by the data of the Ministry of Health and the Ukrainian Center for Transplant Coordination. A significant success in the field of transplantology is the second lung transplant recently carried out in Ukraine and the first carried out independently by Ukrainian doctors.