Federal Hospital does kidney transplantation in a wrong patient in Natal

According to the Dina Blog, which revealed the case, the error would have occurred because the two patients have similar names, and the person called to receive the organ was eventually changed.

After unsuccessful surgery, the organ was removed and discarded, and the patient he had received needed to be taken to ICU (Intensive Care Unit), where he is still hospitalized.

The column questioned the hospital on the patient’s health, without return; The article will be updated in case of response.

Also according to the note, the hospital has been conducting transplants since 1998, with 854 procedures throughout its career and a “qualified team in high complexity treatments”.

How the Transplant Line works

The waiting list for an organ is unique in the country and managed by the National Transplant System. It does not take into account just the order of arrival: the choice of a patient to receive a kidney, for example, is based on technical criteria of compatibility between the donor and the receiver and parameters such as urgency, gravity of the case and waiting time.