“Gift of Life: First Organ Donation in Nuevo Laredo Provides Kidneys and Lung for Transplants”

Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas. – A gift of life was given when a Neolaredan died, by donating his organs, which were extracted in the General Hospital “Nuevo Laredo” and transferred for patients who were on the waiting list to receive kidneys and a lung.

This is the first organ donation at the General Hospital and the first lung donation in the state since 2008, reported the head of the Tamaulipas Health Secretariat, Vicente Joel Hernández Navarro.

Is about Enrique Garza, 53 years oldwho was hospitalized at the San Gerardo Hospital, where he was brain dead and as an organ donor, his body was transferred to the “Nuevo Laredo” General Hospital, where 8 specialized doctors belonging to the Organ Donation and Transplant Program performed the removal of organs donated by the patient.

The intervention was coordinated by Dr. Thelma Amisadai Dragustinovis Alvarezdirector of the State Transplant Center, and the kidneys and right lung were removed, since there were compatible patients on the waiting list.

paramedics of the URSA Association of Nuevo Laredo The transfer from the General Hospital to the Quetzalcóatl International Airport brought a container with the right lung, which was taken by air ambulance to the Muguerza Hospital in Monterrey, Nuevo León, for transplantation to a 67-year-old male patient.

Five medical specialists from Nuevo León arrived in Nuevo Laredo for this body.

A kidney was taken to the hospital of the IMSS in Monterrey, Nuevo Leónand another to the High Specialty Regional Hospital in Ciudad Victoria, where a 38-year-old male patient was transplanted.

In the operation to transfer the organs to the Quetzalcóatl International Airport, we had the support of elements of the Municipal Traffic and Highway Department and agents of the National Guard Airport Station command.

According to the Federal Ministry of Health, organ donation represents a life expectancy for thousands of people and establishes that if the donor patient is brain dead, a heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, intestine, tissues such as cornea, skin can be obtained. , heart valves and bone.

The director of the General Hospital, Mario Perez Coss declined to give information, arguing that he was going to Ciudad Victoria for some events