The donor’s wife: “My husband is not alive, but his body still exists …”

23/10/2019 08:33

After falling into a concrete wall, Mr. Soai suffered a traumatic brain injury and did not survive but the man donated 1 heart, 1 liver, 2 kidneys, 2 corneas, 10 tendons and 3 blood vessels helps to revive life for so many people.

 

Ngo Van Soai (born in 1982, in Ngo Xa village, Chau Minh commune, Hiep Hoa district, Bac Giang province) is the youngest of 6 siblings in a family. He is the main income of his family, farming is the main thing. In his spare time, he installs electrical appliances for houses around the village to support a wife of three children and an 86-year-old mother.

 

During one of his trips to buy devices for building, Mr. Soai had a self-accident and hit a large concrete block that blocked a big car into the village road, causing serious brain injury.

 

The patient’s family member said the doctor explained that there were not many opportunities for living, so the family took him home. However, the family still hoped for a miracle, so once again brought him back to Viet Duc University Hospital. After 2 days of resuscitation, Mr. Soai’s condition did not change any better, the doctor announced that he had been brain dead.

 

Doctors shared about patients who were waiting to die if they did not have organs for transplant, his family wrote an application to donate tissues and organs to save people. Thanks to that, the miracle came to 4 families who received organs from Mr. Soai.

 

Mr. Ngo Van Chinh – patient’s brother shared: “My family agreed to let my brother donate organs. I thought of the three sons of Soai. Even though his father is dead, I hope they can be proud of their father, so that they can see his father’s picture one day, and they will miss him more”.

 

Soai’s wife, Ms. Giang, said: “My husband cannot live anymore, but I want a part of his body still exists somewhere in this world.”

Although the family has made a humane decision to save lives, but besides the people who understand the story, Mr. Soai’s family has to receive many bad and bitter words from the society. Those who do not understand have used words such as cutting into the heart of an 86-year-old mother who is no longer lucid, the wife despite all the desire to bring the best things to her husband and children who lost their father when they were still young and too small. Hearing those painful words, his family could only wipe away their tears ….

 

According to doctors, organ transplants are the last and effective treatment for patients with irreversible organ damage. Until now, this technology has been constantly developing and is recognized as one of the most important achievements of world medicine, as one of 10 inventions in science and technology that change people’s lives. kind in the 20th century. Millions of people around the world receive organ transplants every year. The number of transplant patients is also increasing over the years. The need for organ transplants is increasing.

 

Statistics show that, in the past 10 years (2009-2019), at Viet Duc University Hospital, there were 57 patients with brain donation brain death. Doctors conducted 25 heart transplants, 2 lung transplants, 54 liver transplants and 99 kidney transplants.

 

Resurrection stories that seem to be in fairy tales have come true thanks to donations of tissue and organs after brain death. Those organ transplants not only continue to live their part, but also to the life of the benefactor.

 

Lê Nguyên/ Health & file style magazine