Transplant Official Addresses Girl’s Death
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The head of a group that helped locate organs for the Mexican teenager who died as a result of a bungled transplant says his organization didn’t know her blood type before it released the heart and lungs. Jesica Santillan died after a second set of organs was transplanted at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C.
Jesica had type-O blood and the organs used in the first operation were type A. Correctly matched organs were implanted two days before she died.
“We could have requested her blood type, and I wish we had,” Lloyd Jordan of Carolina Donor Services told CBS’ “60 Minutes.”
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