On the fifth day of the first lunar month on February 14, when the people of the whole country were celebrating the Spring Festival, with the roar of the propeller, a rescue helicopter carrying donated organs took off from the People's Hospital of Zhenyuan County, Pu'er City at 09:15, and urgently transferred the donated organs to Kunming. At 10:16, the helicopter landed smoothly on the apron on the top floor of Building 1 of the First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University (hereinafter referred to as the First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University), and it took only 61 minutes to successfully complete the point-to-point transportation task from Zhenyuan County, Pu'er City to the First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University.
According to the staff of the OPO Office of the First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, the donor suffered a traumatic brain injury due to a car accident on February 10, although he was fully treated, he was finally brain dead due to serious injuries, and the family decided to donate 2 kidneys, 1 heart and 2 corneas to people in need, which made three patients with end-stage organ failure regain their lives, and also make two patients with eye diseases see again.
The Spring Festival is the grandest traditional festival of the Chinese nation, and people give the Spring Festival the beautiful meaning of saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new, and reunion, and organ transplantation may be the most interpretive operation of "welcoming the new" and "reunion". A healthy organ transplant into a patient with organ failure will allow the patient's body to gradually return to normal. According to Director Jin Li, head of the OPO of the First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, as of February 14, 2024, the Yunnan Provincial Joint OPO (Organ Procurement Organization) Working Group, composed of the First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming Yan'an Hospital, and Yunnan Fuwai Cardiovascular Disease Hospital, has cooperated to complete 7 cases of organ donation. Huang Hanfei, director of the Department of Organ Transplantation of the First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, further said that since the beginning of this year, the First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University has completed a total of 4 cases of liver transplantation, 15 cases of kidney transplantation, and 4 cases of corneal transplantation. Organ donation and transplantation are the key to saving dying lives and serving the development of medicine.
On February 14, two kidney transplants, heart transplants and corneal transplants were performed simultaneously in the First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University and Yan'an Hospital, respectively.
Organ transplant experts said that the rapid transfer of donated organs from humans can win more chances of life for rescuing patients with end-stage organ failure, which is actually a race against time. For organ transplant patients, the faster the speed, the more secure the life, and the helicopter "Air 120" clearly opens a green acceleration channel for saving lives.