in that case you ll have all kids under 12 to be on the adult list or whether they will stick to their guns to try to maintain the policy and try to convince the judge that she should not get involved. who are the leading voices? is it the doctors here at the forefront of the rule that s in place? yes. it s a wide range of people from the transplant community. there are policy experts that work under a contract from health and human services to design the policy and implement it. we ll see what happens next as you point out. we could be at a critical point with this. thank you. perhaps we ll have an opportunity to talk with you more. we ll be right back. ve been som. and some difficult ones. but, through it all we ve persevered, supporting some of the biggest ideas in modern history.
list was be superfluous, and there are some cases where the organs have been cut down, but they are very, very rare operations. david, if we look at the statistics right now out of roughly 1,700 people waiting for a lung transplant, 16 of them are children under the age of 11, so is the judge doing the right thing to make these exceptions or setting up the potential that the judicial system is going to be seen as playing favorites here, and the same issue thatรง secretary kathle kathleen sebelius had raised? this is a disaster and it is really, really important that the people who donate organs believe in the system and fair system which does a good job of marshaling and stewarding this incredibly scarce source. in situations like this, we are talk about the young patients and the possibility of getting adult organs put into them, it is a difficult issue as are all of the allocation issues and ethcysts and surgeons and
it may be the last legal hurdle for sarah. but certainly she has a lot of challenges still ahead of her. first, it s this legal challenge, and now that this judge has lifted that and said, you know what, children like sarah should be put on this adult list, they should have access to adult donors, as well. in fact, let me read you part of the order here, because i think it spells out. it says, to immediately cease application of the under12 rule as to sarah murnaghan so that she can be considered for receipt of donated lungs lungs from adults based on the medical severity of her condition . so anderson, a huge emotional victory for the family. although the secretary of the health and human services department points out that there are still 40 other adults who are very sick in the region. this is a six-state region, approximately, that sarah has to now compete with, with other sick adults, other sick children. approximately three children who are also sick who may also need
she s an adorable little girl. she is obviously a great fighter, too. obviously, she has been sick a long time. it s been a great stressful time for all of the family. and she is obviously not out of the woods now. they may not find a donor lung. how hopeful are you, from all the experts have told you, that you may get one? we re very hopeful. being on the adult list is a very good place to be. being in line with everyone else with a high score is very good. we are very, very hopeful. unfortunately, in the last hour she has taken a little bit of a turn for the worse and got sick, which is why both of her parents are, you know, really at her bedside right now. we re hopeful that the doctors at children s of philadelphia can keep her going long enough for lungs. it s the first time we have had hope in a month. sharon bullock, thank you very much for joining me. please send our best to the family and obviously sarah in
her to get a new lung? it may be the last legal hurdle for sarah. but certainly she has a lot of challenges still ahead of her. first, it s this legal challenge, and now that this judge has lifted that and said, you know what, children like sarah should be put on this adult list, they should have access to adult donors, as well. in fact, let me read you part of the order here, because i think it spells out. it says, to immediately cease application of the under12 rule as to sarah murnaghan so that she can be considered for receipt of donated lungs lungs from adults based on the medical severity of her condition . so anderson, a huge emotional victory for the family. although the secretary of the health and human services department points out that there are still 40 other adults who are very sick in the region. this is a six-state region, approximately, that sarah has to now compete with, with other sick adults, other sick