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Bulgarian doctors to learn how to perform lung transplant in Vienna

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Bulgaria’s Ministry of Health and the Department of Thoracic Surgery of the Medical University of Vienna and Vienna General Hospital signed in Sofia an agreement for education and qualification of Bulgarian doctors in the field of lung transplant. The head of the Department of Thoracic Surgery of the Medical University of Vienna Professor Walter Klepetko promised that five Bulgarian patients who need emergency transplantation will go under a surgery in his department every year. Thanks to the document signed today in Sofia lung transplantations will be made on the territory of Bulgaria as well. The first lung transplantat is expected to be made at the end of 2020, Bulgaria’s Minister of Health Kiril Ananiev announced.




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