boldly hospital refurbishment For transplantsit was ahead Ministry of Health. Typically, for a kidney transplant, the amount that EOPYY will be asked to pay increases five times, from 9,000 euros to 45,000 euros.

The increase was made in an attempt to cover the real cost of services provided by transplant departments, which today are tragically underestimated in our country. It is only worth noting that in other European countries, kidney transplant hospitals they start at 40,000 euros and go up to 60,000 euros.

In particular, according to the decision published in the Government Gazette last Friday and signed by Deputy Minister of Finance Theodoros Skilakakis and Deputy Minister of Health Mina Gaga, closed joint hospitals (KEN) for transplants are regulated from 80,000 euros for lung transplants to 130,000 euros, from 50,400 euros for a heart and lung transplant to 150,000 euros, from 9,000 euros for a kidney transplant to 45,000 euros, and from 28,900 euros for a liver transplant to 80,000 euros. The CEN for heart transplantation remained at 80,000 euros, as it has been until now.

In addition, for the first time also provides compensation for organ harvesting operations to cover the related operating costs of donor hospitals. For the removal of a kidney from a living donor, the hospital will receive compensation from EOPYY in the amount of 8,000 euros, for a partial liver removal from a living donor, 12,000 euros, and for the removal of a heart, lung, kidney, liver or pancreas from a deceased donor, 10,000 euros.

As stated in the decision, the new hospitals are expected to “cause an additional strain on the EOPYY budget due to KEN’s budget adjustments for transplantation and the creation of new ones regarding public hospitals.”

Recall that the law transplants are carried out exclusively in state institutions. The amount of the fee will depend on the number of transplants. As EKPA Professor Emeritus of Pathology-Neprology, President of the Hellenic Society of Transplantology and the Onassius Center for Cardiac Surgery, Ioannis Boletis told K, if new hospitals, as described in the decision, will apply in 2022. EOPYY will pay an additional €11,166,400 for the transplant..

It is reminded that in 2022, 246 transplants were performed in our country parenchymal organs, including 104 kidneys of a deceased donor, 83 kidneys of a living donor, 36 livers of a deceased donor, 12 hearts and 11 lungs.

According to Mr. Boletis, additional resources could finance the modernization of transplant department operations and increase the salaries of staff, such as anesthesiologists. “This decision must be followed by decisions on how the increased resources that hospitals will receive from the new KEN should be distributed,” the professor notes.

It is worth noting that for the Closed Joint Hospitals adjustment, the corresponding data were obtained for the rest of the European countries, and according to K, although hospitalizations in Greece have increased, they remain below the European average.