The four transplants were a liver transplant into a 9-year-old girl; a kidney transplant into an 18-year-old woman; another kidney transplant into a two-and-a-half-year-old boy; and a heart transplant into a three-and-a-half-year-old.
“This week, Schneider conducted an important and emotional transplant marathon that gave life to four children,” Dr. Efrat Bron Harlev, CEO of Schneider Children’s Medical Center, said. “We are deeply proud of the privilege of taking part in saving lives. We share in the grief of the bereaved family, and thank them from the bottom of our hearts for this noble act of generosity during their most difficult hour.”
The father of one of the children, Noor, thanked the donor’s family, Shabaa.
“We want to express our deepest gratitude to the family of Shabaa, of blessed memory, and to tell her parents that although their daughter’s life was cut short, she gave life to my daughter, who has suffered greatly for more than four years through difficult dialysis treatments and had already lost hope,” he said.
“Know that every breath and every heartbeat of Noor exist only because of you. A part of your daughter will live in our daughter forever, and therefore, in our eyes, she is also your daughter. We embrace you and would be honored to meet when the time is right.”
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