Medical first

[NewsWhore]

The Plaza de la Salud Hospital has completed three simultaneous organ transplants from one single cadaver, a first for the DR. The operations took place on 4 December, but the patients, ages 44, 52 and 44, were all released from the hospital yesterday. A total of twenty doctors took part in the surgery which was led by Chief of Transplant Jiomar Figueroa. Julio Amado Castanos Guzman, head of the hospital's board of trustees, said there needs to be more coordination between hospitals because organs that could be used in transplants are lost every day. Figueroa thanked the organ donor's family, saying that they had been very receptive to the idea of donating the organs.

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