Within 72 hours over the weekend, the staff of Schneider Children’s Medical Center in Petah Tikva successfully transplanted five organs into five small children.The lifesaving organs were a liver lobe, a whole liver and three kidneys. All the recipients were in stable condition on Sunday, Clalit Health Services – the owner of Schneider – reported.The first operation involved a seven-year-old girl who suffered from liver insufficiency and whose father donated a lobe to her.Forty-eight hours later, a kidney was transplanted into a five-year-old boy, donated by his mother.As this surgery was going on, the Israel Transplant Center learned that a liver and two child-sized kidneys had been donated. At the end of the mother-to-son transplant, the surgical team started to transplant the liver into a 13-year-old boy and the kidneys into a three-year-old girl and a five-year-old boy.No information about the deceased donors was provided.Schneider is one of the few pediatric hospitals in the world that can handle numerous organ transplants simultaneously.if(window.location.pathname.indexOf("656089") != -1){console.log("hedva connatix");document.getElementsByClassName("divConnatix")[0].style.display ="none";}All five transplants were performed by Prof. Eitan Mor, head of the hospital’s transplant center, and colleagues.Schneider has performed 450 organ transplants – which constitutes the majority of organ transplants performed on children in the country.
