700510login-checkGirl receives heart of 4-year-old-boy in first transplant of its kind in Ukraine |
By Radina Gigova and Svitlana Vlasova, CNN
Amid the raging war and constant threat of Russian missiles, a successful heart transplant has been performed on a 6-year-old girl in Kyiv, authorities with the Heart Institute of Ukraine’s Ministry of Health announced on Monday.
The three-hour operation, which took place on Sunday evening, gave the girl the heart of a 4-year-old boy, whom doctors had declared brain dead after suffering an aneurysm. Read the full story on CNN.
700510login-checkGirl receives heart of 4-year-old-boy in first transplant of its kind in Ukraine |