The FBiH Center for Transplantation Medicine is officially opened in the premises of the FBiH Ministry of Health. This is a new administrative organization within the Ministry.
The FBiH Health Minister Rusmir Mesihović said on that occasion at a press conference that the establishment of that center is stipulated by the Law on Organ and Tissue Transplantation with the purpose of medical treatment which was adopted in 2009.
He emphasized that the founding of the center remained only on assumptions and activities on developing the development to the entire transplantation program intensified in 2011.
“We made a series of bylaws that were missing and were a prerequisite for the establishment of the Centre. Then a detailed analysis of all health institutions designated hospital transplant coordinators, mobile teams for the determination of brain death and organ explanations, signed an agreement with the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Croatia, which is the education provided technical assistance in the establishment of the Centre.
In cooperation with the Company BH Telecom, 17 health facilities and institutions involved in the program of transplantation medicine in the FBiH and secured application solution modeled on Croatia,” Mesihović said.
The result of all these activities, he added, is a fully defined and established system of transplantation medicine in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
“This is a step forward and it’s a basis for a continued development of transplantation medicine in FBiH. The system was based on best world models and continued growth depends from health professionals but also the level of collective consciousness of citizens about the necessity of organ donating and organ transplantation,” Mesihović said.
According to him, there is also a so called logistics of transplantation, i.e. necessary supporting mechanisms.
“We own the logistics of transplantation and we are in the final stages with the Defense Ministry of BiH which will help if necessary,” he said.
Within today’s press conference, one of the possibilities of the information system, a direct video link with one of the hospital coordinator in the Clinical Center of the University of Sarajevo and the Clinical Hospital in Mostar.
In FBiH, mostly in the University Clinic of Tuzla, they are conducting kidney transplantation, cornea, liver, and hematological transplantation.
According to available data, 257 people are awaiting kidney transplantation in FBiH and eight for liver.
(Source: Fena)
