Photo: Yolanda Medina, 41, died while undergoing surgery at Montefiore Medical Center to donate a kidney to her brother.
'She gave her life to save mine, ' says Roberto Medina of his brave sister Yolanda
HE SHOULD be celebrating a new lease on life.
Instead, a Bronx man is mourning the loss of his sister, who died at Montefiore Medical Center while undergoing surgery to donate a kidney to him.
“She gave her life to save mine,” a devastated Roberto Medina, 39, told the Daily News. “She was a brave woman. My sister was a hero.”
Medina’s older sibling, Yolanda Medina, 41, died on an operating table at Montefiore two weeks ago after surgeons cut her aorta during kidney transplant surgery.
The May 23 mishap prompted the prestigious hospital to shut down its live-donor organ transplant program and spurred a state health investigation.
The tragic chain of events began in February when Yolanda Medina, a mother of three young girls, found out her ailing kid brother needed a transplant.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/a-hero-man-sister-died-surgery-give-kidney-article-1.1091066#ixzz1x4x4TuyA
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