The hospital denied that a candidate could be "first on the list" for a transplant because there are different levels of priority for the allocation of /quote]
Reactions have been sparked in Boston, USA by a hospital's decision to remove a 31-year-old man from the heart transplant list because he refuses to get the COVID vaccine;19.
Dizday Ferguson's family claims he was first on the list to receive the transplant at Brigham and Womens Hospital, but was removed because of his vaccination status, CBS Boston reported.
His father, David Ferguson, said his son who is fighting for his life in the hospital and is in desperate need of a transplant does not believe in the coronavirus vaccine.
"It's against his core principles, he doesn't believe in it. It's a policy they're enforcing and so because he won't get vaccinated, they took him off the heart transplant list," he said."
Ferguson has two children and is expecting a third with his partner Heather, according to the GoFundMe page set up to help him.
Brigham and Womens Hospital, which is a teaching institution at Harvard, said research showed that transplant recipients were at a much higher risk of dying from COVID compared to non-transplant patients.
"We do everything we can to ensure that a patient who receives a transplanted organ has a greater chance of survival," a hospital spokesperson told The Post."
[BR][BR]
The hospital's policy requiring recipients to get the COVID-19 vaccine applies to other transplant programs in the U.S., the spokesperson added. The hospital denied that a candidate could be "first on the list" for transplant because there are different levels of priority for organ allocation.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) also recommends that immunocompromised patients, which includes organ transplant recipients, be vaccinated because they are highly susceptible to coronavirus.
Ferguson's family is considering transferring him to another hospital that has a different policy on transplants and vaccination, but fears he is already too weak to be transferred.
Source: Proto Thema
Contents of this article including associated images are belongs Cyprus Times
Views & opinions expressed are those of the author and/or Cyprus Times
Source
