MANILA—A 12-year-old boy who died after a pile of unexploded firecrackers he and a friend had collected blew up in their faces has become the country’s first pediatric kidney donor to an adult patient, health officials said Monday.
Health Secretary Enrique Ona said at a news briefing that the parents of John Kenneth Deniega, the blast victim, donated their son’s kidneys to a 64-year-male radio commentator, a diabetic suffering from end-stage renal disease.
The transplant was successfully performed at the National Kidney and Transplant Institute on January 4, giving the adult patient a new lease in life.
“This is our first transplantation of pediatric donor kidneys to an adult recipient,” Ona said, noting that two kidneys from the pediatric donor weighing 36 kilograms were successfully transplanted into an 85-kg adult recipient.
Shortly after the New Year revelry, the donor and a playmate suffered severe head and body injuries when unexploded firecrackers they had collected blew up in their faces.
Health Secretary Enrique Ona said at a news briefing that the parents of John Kenneth Deniega, the blast victim, donated their son’s kidneys to a 64-year-male radio commentator, a diabetic suffering from end-stage renal disease.
The transplant was successfully performed at the National Kidney and Transplant Institute on January 4, giving the adult patient a new lease in life.
“This is our first transplantation of pediatric donor kidneys to an adult recipient,” Ona said, noting that two kidneys from the pediatric donor weighing 36 kilograms were successfully transplanted into an 85-kg adult recipient.
Shortly after the New Year revelry, the donor and a playmate suffered severe head and body injuries when unexploded firecrackers they had collected blew up in their faces.
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