Epoch Times Staff |
May 07, 2006 |
On March 4, 2006, Changchun Evening News reported a story about a
heart removal operation that happened within 31 miles of Changchun City. On
February 27, 28-year-old Xie Baoshi from Zhejiang Province, accompanied by his
younger brother, arrived at the Second Hospital of Jilin University in Changchun
City by airplane. On the plane ride there, his life was maintained by an oxygen
device. After being admitted into the hospital, he was diagnosed as having
"terminal dilated cardiomyopathy" and the only treatment was to have a
heart transplant. On February 28, the second day of Xie's hospital stay, the
hospital "miraculously" found a matching heart and immediately decided
to conduct a heart transplant.
The report didn't explain the source of the heart. It only said that at 10:00
a.m. February 28, the Department head of the Kidney Disease Department at the
hospital took an ambulance to get to the donor who was 31 miles away. Within 10
minutes he had removed a heart from a man, put it in the protection reagent
specially made for hearts, then rushed back to the hospital at a speed of 111
miles per hour. Three hours later, the heart from that man started to beat
within Xie Baoshi's body.
The president of this hospital proudly claimed, "Our hospital has
successfully conducted the first heart transplant in Changchun City, which is
the first case of a heart transplant conducted by doctors from our own
province." One concerned reader from Changchun City pointed out that
according to general medical knowledge, if 100 people who died in the world on
that day were found, only one of these people's hearts would be a match. The
reader wanted to know how they could drive to a place 31 miles away within one
day and find a donated heart?
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