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'Please help my daughter': Mother's tearful plea for lung donor as

daughter has just one more day to live

The mother of a teenager who will die unless she receives a double lung transplant by

tomorrow pleaded yesterday for a donor family to step forward and save her daughter's

life.

"For those who have a good heart, please help my daughter," said a tearful Imelda Lo.

"She's a very good daughter. I don't want to lose her."

amella !angali Lo is one of three or four patients a year in ong #ong who are afflicted

by primary pulmonary hypertension, a condition for which there is no specific cause.

$r Timmy %u &ing(u( of )ueen !ary ospital said they had *+ hours to save her.

alf of all patients die because of the lac( of a suitable transplant donor.

"The death rate of this operation is - per cent, and even if it was a success, there could

be multiple organ failure," said %u, chief of service of the department of cardiothoracic

surgery at the o( Fu Lam hospital.

"/ut there is no other option if there is no lung transplant, the death rate is 0-- per

cent."

amella, a hospitality and catering student at the Institute of 1ocational 2ducation, heads

the city's waiting list for a lung transplant.

She briefly slipped into critical condition on Saturday soon after being transferred from

3rantham ospital in &ong 4hu( ang and is now hoo(ed up to a heartlung machine

that is (eeping her alive.

er blood pressure is three to four times higher than normal.