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Apuseni Mountains Plane Crash Surviovr Appointed National Transplant Agency Director

Romanian Health Minister Sorana Pintea appointed Dr. Radu Zamfir, a survivor of the 2014 medical flight crash in the Apuseni Mountains, as the new executive director of the country’s National Transplant Agency (ANT).
Apuseni Mountains Plane Crash Surviovr Appointed National Transplant Agency Director
Ionut Preda
05 mart. 2019, 13:39, English

According to a statement issued by the Health Ministry, the doctor is a specialist in hepatic-biliary-pancreatic and oncology surgery, and also holds an European diploma for multiple-organ transplant procedure.

The ANT executive director represents the agency in relations with state institutions, approves its internal regulations, grants accreditation for transplant centers and authorizes the import and export of organs, tissue and human cells used in transplants.

Radu Zamfir is one of the survivors of a plane crash which happened in the Apuseni Mountains in January 2014. A medical flight which was scheduled to collect the liver from a donor in Oradea crashed in the mountains, which resulted in the death of two of the aircraft’s passengers.