A 17-year-old young man from the UAE is in serious condition in a hospital in India, after his body rejected a transplanted heart.
Mohammed Al Yahi, 17, is in critical care at a hospital in India - a teenager needs a new donor heart after his body has not received a previously transplanted organ. His father Sultan does not find a place near a hospital bed, calling out to heaven that his child will survive.
Last summer, young people, 17-year-old Mohammed and 18-year-old Hamad, underwent heart transplant surgery - they were diagnosed with a severe form of familial cardiomyopathy, a chronic heart muscle disease that makes it stop pumping blood through the body.
Later, after they returned to the UAE, Muhammad felt extremely ill.
“He started having a fever and his body was swollen,” said the father of the young man Sultan.
The human body dies without a sufficient flow of blood to organs and limbs. The brothers began to fail the liver due to a lack of oxygen in the blood.
Last summer, Mohammed was in several hospitals in Abu Dhabi, but doctors did not observe an improvement in his condition for several months.
In one of the hospitals, Cleveland Clinic in Abu Dhabi, doctors confirmed that Mohammed’s body rejected a new heart and that he needed another transplant.
Mohammed's new heart has already stopped twice.
Mohammed was immediately sent to India, the country with the largest pool of donor organs in the world, since there was no organ for Mohammed in the UAE.
Now the teenager is in a Fortis hospital on a life support device.
"Now we are again waiting for the donor. Mohammed can only live on the device for two months, after which internal brain transformations and bleeding occur. More than a month has passed, we have nothing left to do but pray and wait," he said.
According to the patient’s father, if a donor appears in the UAE, he is ready to fly back immediately, although it is worth noting that a transplant system is still being created in the country.
"I would prefer to be in the UAE, but I have no choice. If my son had a heart, I would go to the Emirates at that moment," said Sultan, a native of Al Ain.
