New Transplant Unit Opens at the 1st Faculty of Medicine and the General Teaching H












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            In a ceremony on January 11, 2011, the newly renovated transplant unit of the 1st Clinic o

            Medicine of the General Teaching Hospital and the Charles University 1st Faculty of Medici
            the public. Costing 26 million CZK, the reconstruction allowed to increase the capacity of
            significantly improve both patients’ comfort and the quality of teaching.

            “Students now have the opportunity to study a part of internal medicine in a state-of-the-
            environment. Undergraduate students have to know about today’s possibilities in treatment 
            oncological illnesses, because, as Professor Trněný mentioned, we have seen a dramatic ris

            who suffer from them. Every two hours, a new patient is diagnosed, and therefore it is imp
            graduates of medical schools know the latest forms of treatment. At the same time, the cli

            better chance to identify successful students and recruit them”, said Professor Jana Duško
            Student Affairs and Stomatology of the 1st Faculty of Medicine.
            Hematology has always been a bridge between the clinic and the laboratory and their collab

            possibilities for postgraduate students. “Every year, we offer positions for postgraduate 
            can then get work experience with hematology in our lab or in the Institute of Pathophysio
            located in Karlovo Náměstí and the mutual collaboration is excellent”, said the head of th

            Internal Medicine of the General Teaching Hospital and the 1st Faculty of Medicine, Profes
            An example of a successful collaboration between the treatment centre and the research sec
            Stupka’s article in the Blood magazine.

            Minister of Health Dr. Leoš Heger also wished the best of luck to the new unit. “In health
            always going through dramas”, he said, noting that following the “Thank you, We’re Leaving
            among doctors who intend to leave the country and find jobs abroad because of what they pe

            reforms, the situation at the hematology in Hradec Králové is critical: “Hopefully, I won’
            the facilities in Hradec Králové to the General Teaching Hospital in Prague.” The director
            General Teaching Hospital, Dr. Dana Jurásková, also touched upon the difficult situation i

            “Minister Heger talked about money, and unfortunately, we will have to organize the hemato
            patient care differently to reflect the limited funding. However, we believe that we will 
            provide care to both our current and future patients.”

            The 1st Clinic of Internal Medicine is the largest and one of the most important hemato-on
            in the Czech Republic, focusing on the most frequent types of blood tumours. Among treatme
            such tumours is the autologous transplantation of haemopoietic cells, which has been condu

            clinic since 1993. The clinic also serves as a teaching facility for the 1st Faculty of Me
            hematological laboratory provides morphological and molecular biological analyses, whereas
            culture laboratory cultivates stem cells for experimental therapy.

            P.K.

            Translation: Jaroslav Švelch