An HIV-positive mother in South Africa became the first person to donate an organ to an uninfected patient when she donated a piece of her liver to her 13-month-old daughter,reports CNN. Experts say that the results of the transplant have the potential to widen the country’s organ donor scope.
The transplant took position last year at the Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa, and was announced this past week. The operation took position after two potential donors were found to be an unsuitable match and the child’s deteriorating condition made her mother desperate to find a solution. Slowly dying from terminate-stage liver disease,doctors finally consented to allow the baby’s mother to donate a allotment of her liver.
Lead surgeon Jean Bortha commented on the controversial decision.
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Source: inquisitr.com