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World.- A doctor in China was forced to reject a pair of donated lungs that came from a deceased 52-year-old who had spent 30 years of his life smoking a chain. Dr. Chen Jingyu, of Wuxi People’s Hospital, said he realized he could not give a patient’s lungs on the transplant list after seeing the obvious damage caused to the organs due to decades of tobacco use.
“Many smokers in this country have lungs that look like this,” Jingyu said, according to AsiaWire. “Our team decided to reject these lungs for transplantation. If you are a hardened smoker, you may not accept your lungs even if you choose to donate them after death.
Jingyu said the patient did not undergo a CT scan before death, and after he was declared brain dead, his lungs were quickly donated.
“The initial oxygenation rate tests were fine, but when we collected the organs, we realized we couldn’t use them,” Jingyu told AsiaWire.
According to the World Health Organization, more than 300 million people in China are smokers, representing nearly a third of the global total. Nearly 2.3 trillion cigarettes were consumed in China in 2009, which is more than the combined total smoked in the four major tobacco-consuming countries. Statistics also severely affect the country, and WHO estimates that someone in China dies every 30 seconds from tobacco use.
Source: Fox 35
