There was further update regarding the mis-transplantation of HIV organ. Apparently the university hospital had drawn blood from the patient and sent the blood sample back to the university hospital for HIV and other hepatitis marker test.
So when the lab test result came out, the lab technician would inform the transplant coordinator about the status. According to the protocol, any extraordinary result(such as severe hyperkalemia) should be reported to the relevant personnel (including the attending doctor). In such case, the head of transplant project should be informed via SMS. However such protocol was not follow. Well that was why the mishap had occurred.
The head of transplant project for the university hospital is a trauma surgeon – I had attended a few conferences facilitated by him. He was a dedicated person and a philanthropist. He truly had a passion in life. He had given an excellent talk on ethic issue of ECMO and artificial cardiac machine… He is currently the only person who stepped down (not resign from his post of professor of surgery and surgeon of coz) from the post of head of project.
The act of sending the blood sample back to the university hospital laboratory is an act of arrogant and waste of public assets. Why could they just trust the local hospital lab ? The public had to pay twice for a same lab result…. One of the member of the Control Yuan(department of Supervision) has volunteered herself for investigation. She holds a doctorate in nursing and hopefully she could properly probe into such situation and in-proper act would be corrected in the future…
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