National Heart Institute successfully conducts two heart transplants after six-year hiatus

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After a six-year hiatus, the National Heart Institute (IJN) conducted two successful heart transplants in January and February.  Both patients, Muhammad Farhan Irfan Mohd Razif, 20 and Danielle Kang Yu Xin, 18 were given a second chance in life with their heart transplants.  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/yc6pwc2f   WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00 Heart transplant is something that is like for cardiology is the ultimate in terms of the therapy that we can provide to our patients.

00:09 And we had our last transplant was in 2018.

00:14 So this year, after four years, no, six years, six years hiatus, we are so blessed

00:22 that we have been able to conduct two heart transplants, one in January and one in February this year.

00:31 Our very, very deserving patients, these are young patients who have end stage heart disease in which the options were very, very limited.

00:39 And the ability for us to perform this heart transplant is also because of the strong support.

00:47 As far as Sri Lankan Negara is concerned, we have the people who are trained, we have the facilities to do it.

00:53 But just us alone would not make this program a success.

00:58 So this program requires support from a lot of other agencies, in particular from our friends in Kementan Kesehatan,

01:07 especially their National Transplant Resource Center, and also importantly is the, we call it the TOP teams,

01:15 the transplant, organ and procurement teams in Kementan Kesehatan.

01:20 Because without them, without the efforts to try and procure organ for donation,

01:25 none of the transplantation programs in this country would be able to be performed.

01:31 Also, I think importantly as mentioned, is the financial assistance that we have been receiving from the government

01:39 ever since we started our program almost 30 years ago.

01:43 So without the grants that we receive from Ministry of Health, as well as coming from Ministry of Finance,

01:52 we would also not be able to do what we are doing currently.

01:56 So this continuous support from the government is important, as Dr. Plansri pointed out,

02:01 for us to be able to continue to provide similar treatment to deserving Malaysians who have end stage heart disease.

02:10 And I think, we hope and pray that we will continue to be able to do this kind of life-saving procedures

02:17 on Malaysians who require this kind of therapy for the coming years ahead.

02:23 The challenge and challenge that we have for the past 30 years is to procure organ.

02:30 So Kementan Kesehatan cannot develop hospital transplant and so on,

02:37 because we have a need to procure organ.

02:41 So we need cooperation from every individual who has committed to develop organ.

02:49 So far, if we look at the social experience for organ development,

02:56 382,000 people have committed to develop their organs.

03:04 But only 0.02% have ended up with organ cancer.

03:11 Even though we have committed, but when the day of organ cancer has arrived,

03:17 some families do not agree and so on.

03:19 So even though we have expertise, if we do not have heart,

03:24 it is difficult for us to develop to other hospitals and also to increase the number.

03:30 So that is important.

03:32 For more information, visit www.ISGlobal.org

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