About organ donation without myths: 5 questions to the MCSC expert
NewsAugust 3 is World Organ Donation Day. Transplantation for many patients with serious illnesses becomes the only chance to save their lives. But the development of this area is impossible without organ donation — a topic around which there are still many questions and myths.
On this day, we talked with Ruslan Bogdanovich Alikhanov, Head of the Human Organ and/or Tissue Transplantation Department of the A.S. Loginov MCSC, MD.
In the new video, the MCSC expert answers important questions about donation and modern transplantology:
- What is post-mortem donation and why is it so important?
- Is it true that one donor can save several lives?
- What are the most common myths about organ donation?
- What types of donation exist today?
- Why are there not enough donor organs and what technologies are the future of transplantology?
The answers to these questions are in our video.