The Generous Gift: Boy’s Parents Donate Organs, Providing Hope and Saving Lives

And 12 year old boy died yesterday, Wednesday, in “Niños de Acosta Ñu” Pediatric General Hospitalafter several days in intensive care for a Scorpion sting.

His parents reported that They decided to donate their organsallowing “to give hope of life” and “save lives” of patients who are on the waiting list for a transplant, as highlighted by the Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare (MSPBS).

“Despite this painful situation, the family had the great solidarity gesture to say yes to organ donation, turning this moment of sadness into Life expectancy for patients on the transplant waiting list,” highlighted the Ministry of Health.

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“The institution extends its deepest condolences to the family and values ​​the act of love of the parents who, even in such a painful situation, have made a decision that will help save lives”, they add.

Child died from a scorpion sting: what organs will be donated?

The director of National Institute of Ablation and Transplantation (INAT), doctor Hugo Espinozarevealed to ABC that the donor will provide his two kidneys and its two corneas.

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He explained that they carried out the routine evaluation in cases of donation from cadaveric patients, determining that said organs are the ones that can be used for transplants. He noted that the heart of the child cannot be implanted in another person because it was found that he suffered from a myocarditis.

He also specified that the kidneys They already have beneficiaries: one will be assigned to a 17 year old teenager and another to one woman of 36 y of small physical build. In the case of the corneaseach one will be transplanted to two patients according to the waiting list, which extends to 160 patients.

He was getting ready to go play soccer

The boy and his father were preparing to go play soccer on Sunday, October 8, when the boy He put on shoes and was stung by the scorpion that was inside.

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Immediately, his parents took him to a health center, where they injected him with a antiveneno. This had an effect at the time, but the child suffered a relapse, so he was transferred to the Acosta Ñu Hospital, where he was admitted for therapy with a diagnosis of cerebral edema due to scorpion toxin.