The relay began on August 3 in Gdańsk, with the finish line set for August 8 in Bukowina Tatrzańska. This sporting journey aims to promote the idea of transplantation and to show that life after transplantation can be lived to the fullest, making it possible to pursue passions and dreams. It is also meant to inspire patients and their families.
Riding a bike after transplantation
Among the riders stopping in Warsaw at the end of stage three were transplant recipients as well as Professor Bartosz Kubisa, thoracic surgeon at the Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Transplant Surgery of MUW, Bartosz Machnio, a sixth-year medical student at our University, and Dr. Agata Świątek, physician and two-time Polish Masters Road Cycling Champion.
“Riding the stage from Sierpc to Warsaw took us over five hours, and we showed that such an effort is possible for all of us,” said Prof. Bartosz Kubisa after getting off his bike in front of the hospital on Banacha Street. “After receiving a transplant, you can be physically active, work, start a family and do many other things. It is worth being a donor and giving life to someone like Rafał, my patient after lung transplantation riding alongside me, who can then take on such challenges”.
An Initiative of an MUW Patient
The tour is organized by the Transplantation Liverstrong Foundation. Its president, and also one of the cyclists, Grzegorz Perzyński, underwent a life-saving liver transplant 23 years ago at the hospital on Banacha Street.
