So sorry Kacyee, you are right - what a terrible waste of a young life. RIP
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by kafenes » Fri Aug 03, 2007 11:31 am
Accident victim gives new life for five transplant patients
By Jacqueline Theodoulou
THE PARENTS of a young man who died after a road accident have donated his organs and helped five sufferers in Cyprus and Greece.
Giorgos Antoniades, 26, from Strovolos had been critically injured in an accident in Nicosia early last Monday.
On Wednesday, doctors told his parents that Antoniades was clinically dead. They later made the decision to donate his organs.
Doctors arrived from Greece on the same night and collected Antoniades’ heart and liver, which were successfully transplanted to two Greek patients.
His kidneys and eyes were donated to three Cypriots. The Paraskevaidio Surgical and Transplant Centre yesterday carried out two successful kidney transplants, while the corneas were taken to the Makarios Hospital in Nicosia.
Greek Cardiologist Dr Petros Alivizatou from the Cardiology Centre in Greece expressed his great appreciation to Antoniades’ parents and to Cyprus.
“It is not the first time that this has happened. We have come before and you gave us a heart. And that heart beat for many years in the body of the patient who received it,” he told reporters.
He explained it was extremely difficult to find donors. “And that is why we are here. We thank the family very, very much.”
The director of the Paraskevaidio Centre, Dr Giorgos Kyriakides, also expressed his gratitude to Antoniades’ family.
“First, I must thank the family o the deceased, who had the magnanimity and feeling of social solidarity to offer their own son’s organs. With this, they have helped a total of five people,” he said, adding that the victim’s organs were in excellent condition.
“The truth is that organ donation is a big deal, as we have stressed repeatedly, and we wish we had more organs,” Kyriakides pointed out.
“I’m not saying we wish we had more deaths. But from the moment that these deaths exist from road accidents or other reasons that cause brain death, I think it is society’s duty to help our suffering fellow humans and offer our organs to help them,” he said.
The doctor said Antoniades’ kidneys were given to a 40-year-old woman from Limassol and a 49-year-old from Navargos village in Paphos.
The families of those who received the organs thanked the young man’s parents for making a decision that had changed their relatives’ lives.
Anyone can become an organ donor just by filling in the special card that is provided by the Paraskevaidio Centre.
Copyright © Cyprus Mail 2007
By Jacqueline Theodoulou
THE PARENTS of a young man who died after a road accident have donated his organs and helped five sufferers in Cyprus and Greece.
Giorgos Antoniades, 26, from Strovolos had been critically injured in an accident in Nicosia early last Monday.
On Wednesday, doctors told his parents that Antoniades was clinically dead. They later made the decision to donate his organs.
Doctors arrived from Greece on the same night and collected Antoniades’ heart and liver, which were successfully transplanted to two Greek patients.
His kidneys and eyes were donated to three Cypriots. The Paraskevaidio Surgical and Transplant Centre yesterday carried out two successful kidney transplants, while the corneas were taken to the Makarios Hospital in Nicosia.
Greek Cardiologist Dr Petros Alivizatou from the Cardiology Centre in Greece expressed his great appreciation to Antoniades’ parents and to Cyprus.
“It is not the first time that this has happened. We have come before and you gave us a heart. And that heart beat for many years in the body of the patient who received it,” he told reporters.
He explained it was extremely difficult to find donors. “And that is why we are here. We thank the family very, very much.”
The director of the Paraskevaidio Centre, Dr Giorgos Kyriakides, also expressed his gratitude to Antoniades’ family.
“First, I must thank the family o the deceased, who had the magnanimity and feeling of social solidarity to offer their own son’s organs. With this, they have helped a total of five people,” he said, adding that the victim’s organs were in excellent condition.
“The truth is that organ donation is a big deal, as we have stressed repeatedly, and we wish we had more organs,” Kyriakides pointed out.
“I’m not saying we wish we had more deaths. But from the moment that these deaths exist from road accidents or other reasons that cause brain death, I think it is society’s duty to help our suffering fellow humans and offer our organs to help them,” he said.
The doctor said Antoniades’ kidneys were given to a 40-year-old woman from Limassol and a 49-year-old from Navargos village in Paphos.
The families of those who received the organs thanked the young man’s parents for making a decision that had changed their relatives’ lives.
Anyone can become an organ donor just by filling in the special card that is provided by the Paraskevaidio Centre.
Copyright © Cyprus Mail 2007
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