KAREN CALDERÓN / NTRZACATECAS.COM
KAREN CALDERÓN / NTRZACATECAS.COM
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ZACATECAS. This Thursday, the first multi-organ procurement was carried out during the COVID-19 pandemic at the Hospital General de Zona (HGZ) No. 1 of the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS).
Corneas and kidneys were procured, which will benefit four patients requiring a transplant.
The donor was a 30-year-old man who was diagnosed with brain death from head trauma from a car accident; He was originally from Veracruz and had been living in the state for 27 years with his family, which, in an act of goodwill, and in the midst of pain, decided to donate the organs of his first-born son to save and improve the quality of life of the receivers.
The two kidneys were transplanted at the Centro Médico Nacional de Occidente (CMNO), in Guadalajara; the corneas will be transplanted at the General Hospital of the La Raza National Medical Center, informed the Hospital Coordinator for Organ and Tissue Donation of HGZ 1, Miguel Ángel González Alfaro.
He said that a team of specialist surgeons from the CMNO was transferred to Zacatecas for the procurement of the kidneys; the corneas were recovered by doctors from the HGZ 1.
The coordinator recalled that to be a voluntary organ and tissue donor, you can consult the website of the National Transplant Center: https://www.gob.mx/cenatra/ or go to http: //www.imss.gob. mx / salud-en-linea / organ donation where whoever so wishes, may be accredited as a voluntary donor.
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