Jilin: Provided assistance to 100 difficult family organ transplant patients

"Relay of Life, Move the Way with You" Organ Transplant Charity Relief Project Launch Ceremony Site.　Photo by Sun Boyan

Changchun, January 6 (Sun Boyan) The "Relay of Life" organ transplant charity relief project jointly initiated by the First Hospital of Jilin University and the Medical Development and Medical Assistance Foundation of the First Hospital of Jilin University was launched in Changchun on the 5th.

It is reported that the first batch of the project plans to fund 100 patients from difficult families who need to undergo transplant surgery nationwide, and for those who meet the conditions for declaring funding, the patient's self-payment part can enjoy partial or full subsidies in accordance with regulations.

At present, about 300,000 exhausted patients in China need to extend their lives through organ transplantation every year, and patients often face the problem of insufficient funding for surgery. Carrying out organ transplant rescue work is a powerful measure to promote the development of social medical and public welfare undertakings.

The Organ Transplant Center of the First Hospital of Jilin University was established on July 6, 2021, and on the basis of the original liver transplantation and kidney transplantation work, it has now developed into heart transplantation, lung transplantation, pancreatic transplantation, and multi-organ combination transplantation.

Lu Guoyue, secretary of the Party Committee of the First Hospital of Jilin University, said that since the hospital began to carry out organ transplant pilot work in 2011, a total of 805 cases of organ donation have been completed. In 2021, as the only organ donation organization in Jilin Province, it completed 175 cases of organ donation, saving more than 500 patients with end-stage organ failure.

It is reported that the rescue diseases include: biliary atresia, acute liver failure, liver tumors, maple glycolia, araki syndrome, urea circulation disorders, congenital bile acid synthesis disorder type I, ornithine tranyl transferase deficiency, methionemia, homocysteinemia, propionic acidemia; end-stage kidney disease; severe cardiomyopathy, coronary heart disease, end-stage multivalvular disease, complex congenital heart disease, cardiac trauma, heart tumor with extensive coronary sclerosis or myocardial fibrosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, Bronchiectasis, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and nonspecific interstitial pneumonia, pulmonary hypertension due to cystic pulmonary fibrosis and other causes, end-stage bowel disease due to mesenteric vascular thrombosis, intestinal torsional necrosis, inflammatory bowel disease and congenital intestinal malformations in children.

The types of rescue surgeries include: liver transplantation (pediatric and living donor liver transplantation, special case liver transplantation), kidney transplantation (kidney transplantation under special circumstances), heart transplantation, lung transplantation, small intestine transplantation, pancreatic transplantation, islet cell transplantation, cardiopulmonary combination transplantation, liver and kidney joint transplantation, pancreatic and renal joint transplantation, and multi-organ transplantation.

"I hope that through the development of this project, transplant patients with poor families will be treated in a timely manner, so that they can recover their health as soon as possible and return to society as soon as possible." Liu Fang, executive vice president of the Medical Development and Medical Aid Foundation of the First Hospital of Jilin University, said.

It is reported that in addition to the subsidy of treatment costs for patients in difficulty, the project will also provide social work services and humanistic care for patients and their families. (End)