EMILY TSANG EMILY.TSANG@SCMP.COM
PUBLISHED : Friday, 04 September, 2015, 11:32am
UPDATED : Friday, 04 September, 2015, 12:08pm
The wife of a dying Hong Kong liver cirrhosis patient today renewed her emotional appeal for a donor to come forward to save his life.
Mrs Lee said her husband, 46-year-old Stephen Lee, is now in a more stable condition and his eyeballs are responsive when she talks to him – but he is still in desperate need of a transplant.
Lee has been in a critical condition in a coma after a transplant operation was aborted at the Queen Mary Hospital in Pok Fu Lam last week. Doctors cut open his stomach but stopped the operation when it emerged the liver donor had cancer.
Mrs Lee with her husband Stephen Lee. Photo: SCMP Pictures
The heart and lungs from the same donor had already been given to two other patients.
“I hope the public will donate the organs from their deceased family members, so that my husband can be given a new life again,” Lee said in an emotional appeal on an RTHK programme this morning.
“Even if the deceased person did not sign a donation form, the family can make the decision to extend the love.”
She said doctors told her a transplant can take place immediately once there is a liver donation suitable for her husband.
Previously, a potential donor had been a match to give Lee a new liver, but the donation did not take place due to the objections of the deceased’s family members.
Live donation is also welcome but doctors warned that the donor should recognise there is a 20 per cent chance of complications and 0.5 per cent chance of death.
Lee is in need of a liver with blood type O+. A few relatives have taken tests but were found not to be a match or unsuitable for donation.
Anyone who is able to help can call the hospital on 2255 3838.
http://m.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/1855210/please-save-my-husbands-life-wife-dying-hong-kong
