For the first time in Israel: A lung transplant was performed on a corona patient

First publication: Lungs were transplanted tonight (Thursday-Friday) for the first time in Israel in a corona patient, who has been connected to a heart-lung machine in recent months.

The lungs belonged to Sgt. Yonatan Granot, an IDF soldier who died this morning from his wounds after being shot on Tuesday. The weapon of another soldier at a military base in the Jordan Valley area. Granot, a resident of Kibbutz Einat and 22 years old at the time of his death, was a fighter in the basalt battalion of the Nahal Brigade. His family decided to donate the rest of his organs as well.
His lungs were donated to Corona patient.  Yonatan Granot // Photo: Courtesy of the family
The transplant was performed at Sheba in Tel Hashomer after a long struggle by the hospital for approval from the Ministry of Health regarding lung transplants in Corona patients as treatment for patients whose lungs were irreversibly damaged, as revealed last October in “Israel Today”.

As part of the struggle, there has been an unprecedented confrontation over the prestige of hospitals and doctors, which entails a difficult dispute over conflicting medical-ethical approaches. As part of the struggle, unprecedented mutual accusations were made, including allegations of serious harm to patients and persecution of publicity, between Tel Hashomer, where a new lung transplant program was opened last year, and Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva, where all lung transplants have been performed in Israel in recent years. Organ transplants in the country.

Beilinson Hospital, where Granot’s mother works as a breast coordinator at the Davidoff Center, said: “Tal has worked for many years at Beilinson at the Davidoff Center, a professional and humane nurse who accompanies women with breast cancer with a lot of professionalism and compassion. In her nobility, Tal chose to donate her son’s organs and save other lives. “Comfort and share in the deep sorrow of the family.”

Lung transplant surgery, tonight // Photo: Tel Hashomer spokeswoman

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