Mengon: Boston Hospital defended himself after a man’s family claimed that he was rejected by a new heart because he refused to be vaccinated against Covid-19, saying most transplant programs throughout the country established the patient’s survival requirements.
Dj Ferguson’s family said in the appeal of crowdfunding this week that officials at Brigham and a female hospital told the father of two years of 31 years that he did not qualify for the procedure because he had not been vaccinated against the Coronavirus.
“We are really in the corner now.
It’s very sensitive,” said the family in the appeal of fundraising, who had collected tens of thousands of dollars.
“It’s not just a political problem.
People need to have a choice!” Mrs.
DJ, Tracey Ferguson, insisted that her son did not oppose vaccination, noting that he had other immunizations in the past.
But trained nurses said on Wednesday that he was diagnosed with atrial fibrillation – irregular heart rhythms and often fast – and that he had concerns about the side effects of the Covid-19 vaccine.
“DJ is an informed patient,” said Tracey Ferguson in a short interview at his home in Mendon, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) southwest of Boston.
“He wants to be convinced by his doctor that his condition will not be worse or fatal with this covid vaccine.” Brigham and women refused to comment on DJ Ferguson’s case, citing the patient’s privacy law.
But it refers to the response posted on its website where the Covid-19 vaccine is one of the few immunizations needed by most US transplant programs, including flu and hepatitis B vaccine.
Hospitals say research has shown that more risky transplant recipients Height rather than non-transplant patients dying from Covid-19, and that the policy is in line with the recommendations of the American Society of Transplant and other health organizations.
Patients must also meet the health criteria and other lifestyles to receive donated organs, and are not known whether DJ Ferguson does or will meet them.
Hospital Brigham & Womens also stressed that no patients were placed on the organ waiting list without meeting the criteria, and rejecting the idea that a transplant candidate can be considered “first in the list” for an organ – Ferguson’s family claim made in the fundraising post.
“At present there are more than 100,000 candidates in the waitlist for organ transplants and lack of available organs – about half of the person on the waiting list will not receive organs within five years,” the hospital said.
Hospitals in other countries have faced similar criticisms because they reject transplants to patients who are not vaccinated against Covid-19.
In Colorado last year, a woman who suffered from the final kidney disease said she was denied transplant by her hospital because she was not vaccinated.
Leilani Luali, a Christian who was born again, said he opposed immunization because of the role that the fetal cell line played in some vaccine development.
There is a scarcity of donor organs, so the transplant center only places patients on the waiting list that they think is most likely to survive with new organs.
“Donor’s heart is a valuable and rare gift that must be treated properly,” Dr.
Howard Eisen, medical director for advanced heart failure programs at Penn State University in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
“Our goal is to preserve the survival of patients and good results post transplants.” American network to share organs, non-profit organizations that manage the state organ transplant system, do not track how many patients refuse to get the Covid-19 vaccine has been denied transplantation, Anne Paschke said, organizational spokesman.
He said patients who were rejected by organ transplants still had the right to go elsewhere, even though the individual hospital finally decided which patient add to the national waiting list.
According to online fundraising, DJ Ferguson was hospitalized at the end of November because of heart disease that caused his lungs to fill with blood and fluids.
He was then transferred to Brigham and the woman, where the doctor put the emergency heart pump that the family said was only intended to be a temporary stop.
“It’s awesome,” said Tracey Ferguson.
“No one wants to see their child undergo something like this.”
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