Organ transplant donor, 8, ‘will be reborn in 4 lives’
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THE parents of an eight-year-old girl who died following an accident this week have donated her organs to give the gift of life to four people.
The little girl, nicknamed Xiao Rong, suffered a head injury in a fall on Monday night and was sent to the People’s Hospital in Wuxi, in east China’s Jiangsu Province.
Doctors found that she had suffered a brain hemorrhage and was in a deep coma.
Despite the efforts of medics, Xiao Rong couldn’t be saved.
Her parents wanted to give meaning to Xiao Rong’s death and contacted Wuxi Red Cross giving permission for them to take her organs, the Jiangsu-based Modern Express reported yesterday.
The little girl’s kidneys, liver, lungs and cornea were to be transplanted to patients in Wuxi, provincial capital Nanjing, Suzhou and Changzhou.
On Wednesday, hospital staff and Red Cross officials bowed to the child’s body to pay their respects before her organs were removed.
“She will be reborn in four lives,” Chen Yu, deputy head of the People’s Hospital in Wuxi, wrote on her microblog.
The Wuxi Red Cross organ donation program began in 2011. To date, 30 organs have been donated by 10 people, helping 29 patients.
This is the second poignant story concerning child organ donors in China in recent days.
Last Friday, 11-year-old Liang Yaoyi, from Shenzhen in the southern province of Guangdong, died of a brain tumor.
Shortly before he died, Yaoyi revealed his final wish to his mother, asking her to donate his organs. “I have seen many people do good deeds and I think they are great. I want to be a great child too,” he told her.
Yaoyi’s kidneys and liver were harvested for transplant.
Authorities are trying to overcome a belief that bodies should be buried intact and encourage more Chinese to donate their organs.
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