Life saving flights from Manston. My late father Ted Girdler has a letter from transplant pioneer Magdi Yacoob thanking him for flying hearts and transplant teams from Harefied hospital heart unit (Where i am now...) in appalling winter weather when TG Aviation first started at Manston. Some transplants are still alive... My brother did one such flight from Tayside flying club and was awarded an instructor scholarship by Tayside as a result before he and dad started TG. Dad owned the plane and if someones life was on the line he was going to go, and he always did. From Wikipedia : (search Yacoub) Under Yacoubs leadership, the Harefield Hospital transplant programme began in 1980 and by the end of the decade he and his team had performed 1000 of the procedures and Harefield Hospital had become the leading UK transplant centre. During this period there was an increase in post-operative survival rates, a reduction in the recovery periods spent in isolation and in the financial cost of each procedure. To remove donor hearts, he would travel thousands of miles each year in small aircraft or helicopters. Most of his patients received treatment under the National Health Service, but some private foreign patients were also treated. In December 1983 Yacoub performed the UKs first heart and lung transplant at Harefield. John McCafferty, an Englishman, received his new heart on 20 October 1982 in a procedure carried out by Yacoub. As of December 2013 McCafferty entered the record books as the worlds longest-surviving heart transplant patient.
Posted on: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 16:09:54 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015