Hong Kong’s surgical experts have given a new life to an 11-year-old heart transplant patient, whose time using a mechanical heart pump before his long-awaited operation set a record in the Asia-Pacific region.
Due to the city’s low rate of organ donations, the boy, Tang Kai-him, had relied on the life-saving device for more than 40 weeks until he finally received a heart from a teenage donor and underwent a successful operation last Monday at Queen Mary Hospital.
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