<\/strong>Okhmatdyt where he removed the heart from the body of the donor.\n <\/p>\n\n He then personally escorted the organ across the city.\n <\/p>\n
\n Crossing the Dnipro by a bridge is extremely dangerous during an attack on Kyiv, because vehicles are exposed and Ukrainian air defences target Russian drones and missiles when they are above the river to minimise the impact from falling debris.\n <\/p>\n
\n A video taken during the frantic drive shows a large fire burning near the road as Todurov drives on. \u201cWe\u2019re carrying a heart,\u201d he says calmly.\n <\/p>\n
\n The Russian attack on the capital was still underway when Todurov got into the operating theater at the Heart Institute, heading a large medical team and transplanting the heart into the body of his patient.\n <\/p>\n
\n In a stunning moment captured on camera and shared with CNN, the new heart is seen beating inside the patient\u2019s chest, just hours after it was driven through Kyiv as Russian drones and missiles rained down on the city.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cThe heart is working, and the pressure is stable. We hope that \u2026 (the patient) will recover and live a long and full life,\u201d the doctor said.\n <\/p>\n
\n The Ukrainian Transplant Coordination Centre said in a statement that the donor was a four-year-old girl who was declared brain-dead by a medical council after suffering serious injuries.\n <\/p>\n
\n The girl\u2019s mother, herself a medical worker, agreed to have her daughter\u2019s organs donated.\n <\/p>\n
\n And so, just as Todurov was transplanting the girl\u2019s heart into his patient\u2019s body at the Heart Institute, her kidneys were being transplanted to a 14-year-old boy and her liver to a 16-year-old girl, the center said. The two other patients were at the Okhmatdyt hospital, so no transport was required to get the organs to them.\n <\/p>\n
\n The coordination center said that two of the three recipients were in critical condition and had they not received the transplants, they would have just days or weeks to live.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cMay the little donor rest in peace. Our condolences to her family and gratitude for their difficult but important decision,\u201d the center said.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CNN \u00a0\u2014\u00a0 Kyiv was burning as Dr. Borys Todurov sped through the city in an ambulance, undeterred by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2000,299,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-256253","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114834793517506515","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}