“Yesterday, our colleague and member of the Hellenic Society for Intensive Care was described by the defense lawyer in the context of the hearing as a “dealer in organs for transplantation” in a foreign country,” the Hellenic Society for Intensive Care notes. Departure, reacting to the words of Rula Pispirigo’s lawyer, Alexis Cui, during the testimony of a doctor who was called as a witness.

On Wednesday, Alexis Kougia asked resuscitator Andreas Iliadis “if he sends children’s organs for transplants.” The doctor irritably replied, “I’m not a courier,” stating that he was proud of his contribution to the National Organisation, according to APE.

The resuscitator, referring to Alexis Kugia, added that the lawyer’s questions constituted “an insult to parents who became organ donors.”

“This characterization frankly offends all resuscitators in the country. but also the Sacred Organ Donation Institution. The greatest gift of life is organ donation,” says EEETH.

“We believe that the idea of ​​donation is being attacked with completely baseless arguments. A family of resuscitators who struggle every day to make a living at no cost to themselves are today saddened by the attack on the work of medical and nursing staff who have been trying for decades to bring the country out of the transplant quagmire. The continuous efforts of the staff of the intensive care units are aimed at offering the Greek citizens the gift of transplantation, that is, the GIFT OF LIFE,” concludes EETH President M. Theodorakopoulou.

Pleuris: transplants in Greece are safe

Following yesterday’s Koya-Iliadis skirmish, Health Minister Thanos Pluris tweeted: “Transplants in our country are being performed safely and are saving the lives of our fellow human beings. The EOM and the doctors who help them do a great social job. It goes without saying that we support them in their work and in defending their honor by any legal means.”

Retort Kuya

Lawyer Alexis Kougias later issued a statement about the “absence” of Thanos Pleuris, who, “as a lawyer, interferes with the work of the judiciary with campaign statements.” At the same time, he characterizes the resuscitator as “weird”, conveying his client’s claims that he “hurried to cool Georgina’s brain.”

National Transplant Organization announcement

The National Transplant Organization also released an announcement about what is happening in the courtroom, which, among other things, says that in the context of hearings in a high-profile case, the organ donation process, as well as the specialized medical personnel involved in it, are being abused.

“Obviously, the lawyer does not have sufficient information and does not know that dozens of doctors are involved in the decisions and procedures of organ donation, both in ascertaining the brain death of the donor, and in the removal and transplantation of organs.

In addition, the defense lawyer does not know that organ donation, after the declaration of brain death and the necessary consent of the donor’s family, is coordinated only by the Hellenic Transplant Organization (HTO).”