Brotzu Hospital has reached a new milestone in the field of transplants: since the program began in 2004, 600 liver transplants have been performed, confirming the company's role as a point of reference for the regional healthcare system in the management of the most complex liver diseases .
A journey built over twenty years of clinical and organizational activity, beginning with the first operation performed by Fausto Zamboni , director of Hepatobiliary Pancreatic Surgery and Liver and Pancreas Transplants, who has guided the development of the transplant program since its inception and who today also performed the six hundredth transplant.
This significant figure underpins a complex network of expertise and professionals that ensures Sardinian patients receive treatment on the island every day, without the need to travel outside the region.
Procurement also plays a central role, that is, the set of procedures that manage the entire organ, tissue, and cell donation process . The goal is to identify potential donors and make safe and suitable organs available to patients on the waiting list .
This activity is coordinated by Dr. Antonio Manti, Local Transplant Coordinator: "Transplants are essential for those who live every day with the hope of a calling that can change their destiny. Behind every procedure are people, families, and stories. Knowing that we can offer a further opportunity, thanks to the shared work of so many professionals, means making that hope a reality. And this, above all, is the meaning of our commitment."
"Reaching our 600th transplant marks a moment of profound gratitude for us. Behind this number are not statistics, but stories of rebirth and the indelible memory of the immensely altruistic gesture of the donors and their families." Fausto Zamboni commented, continuing: "My heartfelt thanks go to every single employee, doctors, nurses, and the professionals in each department. If we have been able to accompany so many patients through such a difficult journey, a clinical and emotional challenge in which they fight for their lives, it is thanks to their constant, professional, and profoundly humane work."
General Director Maurizio Marcias described the result as extraordinary: "Having built and consolidated a transplant program in Sardinia capable of offering effective responses means ensuring quality care and the possibility for many citizens to undertake complex therapeutic pathways without having to leave the island."
(Unioneonline/AD)