The story of little Katerina published by Health Minister Adonis Georgiades in a post on X.

The Health Minister spoke about the difficult battle that little Katerina fought against an extremely rare and serious blood disease, for the treatment of which she had to go to the Bambino Gesù hospital in Vatican City.

“I feel Blessed to have deserved to be of even a little help in the life battle that Katerina and her family fought and won! I was very touched to see her in person today, this family has somehow become like my family after all the agony we went through together,”

The entire post by Adonis Georgiades

“Katerina was diagnosed in the grey area between aplastic anemia and myelodysplastic syndrome, an extremely rare and serious hematological disease, with very few cases per million population worldwide. He underwent specific hATG therapy, which did not respond.

He was rushed to the Bambino Gesù hospital in the Vatican, under the guidance of Professor Franco Locatelli. Despite a search for a compatible donor in the global pool of volunteer bone marrow donors – which numbers tens of millions of registered donors – no fully matched donor was found for her case.

She underwent two highly demanding haploidentical transplants, first with her brother as the donor and then her father, with the second successfully completed. Having emerged victorious from her battle for life, she is currently continuing intensive rehabilitation treatments and close medical monitoring in the transplant department of the Marianna Vardinoyannis Children’s Hospital, ELPIDA.