Multi-Organ Procurement Saves Lives After Brain Injury, Organs Routed Across Mexico
WORLD NEWS – MEXICO: A coordinated medical and security operation in Michoacán completed the state’s first multi-organ procurement of the year after a 43-year-old man was declared brain dead following severe cranial trauma. Hospital General de Marabatío and the Secretaría de Salud de Michoacán led the clinical evaluation and authorization process, and the family’s decision to donate enabled a rapid chain of care designed to deliver life-saving transplants to patients on waiting lists.
The procurement yielded four transplantable organs. The donor heart was flown by the Dirección de Servicios Aéreos de la Secretaría de Seguridad Pública to the Centro Médico Nacional Siglo XXI in Mexico City for immediate transplantation. The liver was routed to the Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador for its scheduled transplant procedure. Both kidneys remain in the state and are slated for transplantation at Hospital General Dr. Miguel Silva de Morelia, where local patients stand to benefit.
Officials described the effort as a tightly choreographed clinical and logistical operation linking regional hospitals, national transplant centers, and aerial transport resources to maximize organ viability and recipient outcomes. The procurement and subsequent transfers underscore the critical role of donor families and interagency cooperation in keeping transplant programs functioning across state and national levels. Medical teams will proceed with transplantation procedures in the coming hours and days, with the intent to improve and, where possible, save the lives of four patients who had been awaiting organs.
Video originally published on 2026-01-05 20:09:42
