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Delco Mom Pleads for Direct Organ Donation to Save Child
'Sarah has been left to die,' Janet Murnaghan, the mother of 10-year-old Sarah Murnaghan who has end-stage Cystic Fibrosis, pleads for the public to donate an organ directly to her daughter.
Janet Murnaghan, the mother of , made a final plea to the public on Sunday.
Sarah Murnaghan, of Newtown Square, has been on both the adult and pediatric lung transplant list for 18 months. Because of her age and organ transplant policy, she will only receive adult donor lungs after all adult candidates, regardless of how sick they are, have the opportunity to accept them. There are far fewer pediatric lungs available.
If Sarah were 12 years old she would immediately be eligible for the next available lungs from an adult donor.
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On Friday, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius requested that Dr. John Roberts, president of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network Board, re-evaluate the organ donor policy regarding children, according to the Delaware County Daily Times.
However, it may be too late for Sarah.
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Read her mother's plea for a direct organ donation here on Marple Newtown Patch.
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