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Every year Czech clinics perform hundreds of life-saving organ transplants.
Unfortunately many seriously ill patients wait in vain for the call to say
that a suitable donor has been found. In an effort to increase the number
of donors the Czech Health Ministry is now drafting an amendment to the law
which would allow foreigners to become organ donors as well.
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Current AffairsCzech doctors perform their first combined heart and lung transplant
Doctors at the Institute of Clinical and Experimental Medicine in Prague
have reason to celebrate. In December they performed the first-ever
combined heart and lung transplant in the Czech Republic and their patient
is now well on the road to recovery.
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Current AffairsOrgan transplantation in the Czech Republic from 1966 to the present
Medical Specialists from all over Europe descended on Prague's Congress
Centre in Vysehrad this week. The occasion was a congress of ESOT, the
European Society for Organ Transplantation. The location of the congress in
Prague recognises the large contribution of Czech doctors to the
advancement of transplant medicine both at home and abroad. Joshua Singer
looks at the situation of Czech transplant medicine today.
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MagazineMagazine
Thieves get into the Prague Castle compound. Impressive micro-surgery: a
man gets a big toe in place of a missing thumb. And, a bottle of rum may
cost you 30,000 crowns. Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarova.
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