UN names Liam Donaldson as Patients Safety Envoy

The head of the United Nations World Health Organization WHO appointed on July 21, 2011 Liam Donaldson of the United Kingdom as its envoy for patient safety to help mobilize support on the issue among donors, philanthropic organizations and governments. “With this nomination, WHO is signalling the importance of ensuring that patients get safe, high quality health care all around the world,” said Margaret Chan, the WHO Director-General, announcing the appointment in Geneva. Great step!

Fatal mistakes, organ hunters

Estonian weekly Pealinn, published in capital, had an horrific story in May 2011 about young woman Milana Kashtanova from Estonia whose father told the newspaper how some Estonian doctor expressed his view the family should think about giving up her organs, claiming she has no chances. The family that managed to take Milana to Germany has prooved how wrong the Estonian doctors were once again - after treatment in Germany she became awake and regained also ability to speak, recovering step by step. In August 2011 Milana was taken back to Estonia and instead of Tallinn hospital that declared her hopeless is at the Tartu University hospital that differs like a day and night from the hospital in Tallinn and is much better, his father Vadim told me.
Out of nine Estonian doctors who concluded in 2010 his daugther is in "permanent vegatative" status and there is no cure for her brain FIVE were same doctors related to the tragedy that finished the life my son in their hospital in autumn 2009.
If you wish to help Milana whose family still has to pay for part of treatment in Germany, you can get their contacts at website - http://irinei-ru.livejournal.com/.
Just in autumn 2010 72-year old long time Soviet doctor Peeter Mardna who has been working as health quality" expert under Social Ministry/Health Board in recent years and has violated many rules in health quality violation investigation cases humilated and heart a lot publicly also their family. Mardna claimed the young woman is hopeless and called people whose relatives are in similar situations to "think about donating organs". Mardna has not been given right by Milana family to comment their case, neither has anyone apologized for that wrong "expert" view. One can hardly imagine more cruel person into state paid health official duty.
p.s. Do you know that some tests - like the apnea test can actually harm the brain so that the comatose patient might become brain dead as a result? Search for the topic in net and u can also read article "Wanted Dead or Alive: Organ Donors" by Paul A. Byrne, M.D. Link to copy/paste: http://www.olvrc.com/medical/wanted.html .