Israeli donation saves Bethlehem teen at Hadassah

The Jerusalem Post | Judy Siegel-Itzokovich

The transplantation coordination center, Civil Administration and Hadassah’s organ transplant center worked around the clock to facilitate the kidney donation and sending the teen to
Jerusalem.

A lifesaving kidney, donated with permission from the family of a 38-year-old man who died after a stroke, was donated late last week to a 14-year-old Palestinian from Bethlehem.

The successful organ transplant was performed at Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem’s Ein Kerem, where the teen is now recovering in the intensive care department.

As a medically compatible Israeli was not found by the Israel Transplant Coordination Center on the list of people waiting for a kidney, the decision was made to offer the organ to the Palestinian Authority. It could not be sent to a country abroad because there was little time to do so before the organ became unusable.

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