Organs from 10-year-old boy save 6 lives
Lin Wenjun. [Photo/People's Daily]
The organs donated by a 10-year-old boy who passed away recently saved the lives of six other people, reported People's Daily.
Lin Wenjun, from Nanping, East China's Fujian province, was in September diagnosed with severe aplastic anemia, a condition in which the body stops producing sufficient new blood cells. His condition progressed so fast that it became even impossible to perform a bone marrow transplant surgery to save him.
On Oct 19, Lin suffered an intracranial hemorrhage and he was pronounced brain dead hours later.
Lin's parents bid farewell to their son. [Photo/Fuzhou Evening Daily]
The boy's parents decided to donate their son's heart, lungs, kidneys and liver after communicating with staff workers from the Red Cross Society.
On Oct 29, the organ-donation coordinator of the Fuzhou Xiehe Hospital, where Lin was treated, said the heart of Lin started beating in the chest of another child.
The boy's organs have saved the lives of a total of six people, according to the hospital.
Medical workers pay tribute to Lin. [Photo/Fuzhou Evening Daily]
