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In May, the Hospital Clínico performed the 33rd liver transplant surgery among adults, a procedure that has reduced the waiting lists of patients who need an organ in Chile. Without a living donor, almost 40 percent of them die before reaching the ward.
Raúl Morales was twelve when he told his mother, Rosa Pino, diagnosed with autoimmune hepatitis, that he would donate her liver. But no one paid much attention to him at the time because, he says, “you couldn’t either.” Rosa was part of the list of patients in Chile who wait for years for an organ from a deceased donor.
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Sucre [Bolivia], June 11 (ANI/Xinhua): At least seven people were killed in a collision between a public transport minibus and a large truck near the Bolivian town of Opoqueri on the Oruro-Pisiga international highway, police said on Thursday.
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Published May 7, 2021, 3:15 PM
The recruitment of participants for clinical trial on the use of sleep-aid supplement melatonin as adjuvant treatment for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in patients with pneumonia is ongoing, the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) has disclosed.
DOST Secretary Fortunato “Boy” T. de la Peña said the melatonin clinical trial is headed by Dr. Camilo C. Roa Jr. of the Manila Doctors Hospital and is implemented for nine months, from Sept. 7, 2020 to June 6, 2021.
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“Currently, recruitment of participants is ongoing,” he said.
He said the project has already started the recruitment in 12 out of the 17 hospital sites.