Hong Kong mother to receive crucial liver transplant after anonymous citizen steps forward

Tang (L) and Michelle (R) at a family celebration.
Tang (L) and Michelle (R) at a family celebration.

Tang Kwai-sze, 43, the Hong Kong mother whose battle with acute liver failure made headline news, was in a race against time. Doctors estimated that she only had one or two days left of being viable for the liver transplant surgery she so desperately needed, and her 17-year-old daughter, who was eager to help, was barred from being an organ donor for being underage.

At the eleventh hour, the Hospital Authority (HA) announced today that an unidentified citizen had come forward, and was approved as a donor. During a press conference at 11am, a spokesperson for the HA said the transplant was already underway at Queen Mary’s Hospital.

The spokesperson thanked everyone who had offered to donate their liver to Tang, but noted that there were many other patients in Hong Kong in need of a new liver, and urged people to continue joining the donor registry.

Tang, who was taken to hospital on April 1 after falling ill at home, has been in a coma since April 5. Her daughter Michelle, who is just three months shy of the 18-year-old age limit for live donors, made a public plea for donors earlier this week after her application to be a donor was rejected.



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