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<sy888@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<3e537e70@news.pcmagic.net>...
> Does anybody bother to ask if these guys are in the US legally while they
> sap millions of our health care dollars? Nope!
> 
> Note that no one in the family speaks english. What was hilarious is
> watching the CNN video and hearing an intrepreter answer questions, but they
> try to hide the fact that the family isn't actually responding.
> DURHAM, North Carolina (CNN) -- A Mexican teenager fighting for her life
> after she mistakenly received the wrong organs in a heart and lung
> transplant tops the list for replacements.
> 
> Without a new operation, Jesica Santillan, 17, will die. Hospital officials
> hold out little hope of finding a match, which requires the proper blood
> type and organs that are the right size for Jesica's body.
> 
> Dr. William Fulkerson, the chief executive officer of Duke University
> Hospital, told CNN "those are very rare events."
> 
> "We are just hoping and praying that this will occur," he said. "She is
> critically ill now. She is requiring tremendous advance support to support
> her. We do not think she will survive without a re-transplant."
> 
> Jesica underwent transplant surgery February 7 to replace her own deformed
> heart that deprived her lungs of oxygen. Although Jesica's blood is type
> O-positive, she received organs with type-A blood. Her body immediately
> rejected the organs.
> 
> Fulkerson said the transplant staff believed it was using matching organs at
> the time of the operation. The hospital has launched an investigation and
> said it has implemented safeguards to prevent such errors in the future.
> 
> Magdalena Santillan said her daughter is fighting for her life.
> 
> "I am very angry at the moment, but the priority right now is for her to get
> a new transplant because the days are going by and she's losing her life,"
> she said, speaking through an interpreter on "Connie Chung Tonight."
> 
> Her mother said Jesica looked forward to the transplant to "start her life,"
> but shortly before the procedure she expressed apprehension.
> 
> Family friend Mack Mahoney said he was devastated by the mistaken
> transplant.
> 
> "When she emerged from the operation, she had already started rejecting and
> she was critical," Mahoney said.
> 
> The hospital acknowledged the mistake, he said.
> 
> "They told us there had been a mistake and there had been a clerical error
> and Jesica had received type-A organs. The doctor took full responsibility.
> He said that it was his mistake, he should've typed the organs but he failed
> to do so."
> 
> Jesica remains on the national waiting list kept by the United Network for
> Organ Sharing. Spokeswoman Anne Paschke said the national organ procurement
> group cannot specifically search for a heart and lungs for Jesica.
> 
> "Unfortunately, there are very few organs available," Paschke said. The
> organs not only have to be the right blood type, they have to be the right
> size to fit into the girl's chest cavity.
> 
> Mahoney said Jesica is small for her age -- 5-foot-2 and 85 pounds -- and
> any donated organs would probably come from a child.
> 
> "We have a good chance of saving this child's life if we find a donor in the
> next couple of days," he said.
> 
> Paschke said there are critical shortages of organ donors through the United
> States and finding a donor for a heart-lung procedure is an uphill battle.
> 
> UNOS administers the nation's only organ procurement and transplantation
> network.
> 
> Paschke said that according to the latest statistics, in 2001 and 2002 there
> were only 55 heart-lung transplants nationwide, and as of February 7, there
> were 197 people on the waiting list for the procedure.


They are illegal aliens. Keep bending over Americans.

Burt