Julio A. Castaños Guzman. File
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SANTO DOMINGO .- Dominican Republic medicine reached a milestone a Wednesday when team of surgeons conducted the first heart transplant in the Cedimat medical center, its director Julio A. Castaños Guzman announced Thursday .
The procedure performed on 22 year old patient Estefani Moreno Vargas, mother of two children, used the classic Shumway type technique, and according to doctors who attended her, the recipient is doing well.
The patient was admitted to the center several days ago to await the transplant, conducted by a medical team of 25, including 16 specialists.
The donor’s age was similar to that of the uninsured patient, for whom Cedimat assumed the estimated RD$1.5 million total cost for the 4- hour operation.
Written by: bernies, 19 Jul 2012 12:11 PM
From: United States, key west fl
That's good news but why other people has to die in order for other to live on?
Written by: josean, 19 Jul 2012 12:37 PM
From: United States, Fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia; Guillermo Moreno President 2016
"the uninsured patient"
She aslo had to give up her USELESS METRO Card!
From: Germany, Koblenz, Rheinland-Pfalz
Chan Aquino (a Dominican one) was among the 10 best surgeons in the world since 30 yrs ago (!)
Why don't bring that up ?
Josean, Medical Insurance is something that you must pay for, are you so busy riding a Burro when you can easily ride an efficient Metro line (?) Clean with less pollution and little environmental/ecological impact (!)
From: United States, Vivir sin Patria, es lo mismo que vivir sin Honor.
Good deal! We have to become self sufficient specially in this area.
From: United States
El doctor Chan Aquino se ha destacado en la historia de la medicina dominicana por realizar la primera cirugía de corazón abierto en el año 1974 y por introducir al país las primeras tecnologías de válvulas biológicas cardiacas de Duramadre, además de ser uno de los primeros Jefes de Cirugía del Hospital Moscoso Puello y fundar el Centro Médico asistencial que lleva su nombre.
From: Zimbabwe, La Bemba Colora
Great. Now give Hipolito Mejia a brain transplant!
From: United States, Brooklyn
I wonder how many Haitians will be saved now? meanwhile Josean here is bashing us again. The haitians have always benefited from our achievement. Tourism, land, free birth clinics, and now this... they should be excluded from the living
Written by: Atabey, 19 Jul 2012 1:55 PM
From: United States, NYC
"Written by: Chompiras, 19 Jul 2012 1:28 PM
From: Turkey, Ham & Cheese
Great. Now give Hipolito Mejia a brain transplant!"
Josean is at the top of the list ahead of him. LOL
Written by: RoyStone, 19 Jul 2012 3:59 PM
From: Australia
This is a milestone achievement - kudos to the Dominican medical fraternity. Given the high incidence of road deaths and murders of healthy young Dominicans, there should be an abundant supply of hearts ready for transplant.
However I wonder, how may other lives could have been saved had the RD$1.5 million been spent elsewhere?
Written by: RoyStone, 19 Jul 2012 4:06 PM
From: Australia
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Written by: RoyStone, 19 Jul 2012 4:06 PM
From: Australia
Absolutely, ingle23
The same applies to the recent very high-profile and very expensive Boca Chica Siamese-twins separation operation, paid for by Dominican taxpayers, through the 1st Lady Slush-fund, and the free new house built for the unmarried underage uneducated mother and her daughter, symbolically the 7-billionth on this planet.
Written by: josean, 19 Jul 2012 4:40 PM
From: United States, Fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia; Guillermo Moreno President 2016
"Written by: Atabey, 19 Jul 2012 1:55 PM
From: United States, NYC
"Written by: Chompiras, 19 Jul 2012 1:28 PM
From: Turkey, Ham & Cheese
Great. Now give Hipolito Mejia a brain transplant!"
Josean is at the top of the list ahead of him. LOL'
I asked, that you be given my slot for your sexual reassignment surgery!
So you and Lie-onel after the 16th can RIDE into the sunset and live happily ever after!
Written by: RoyStone, 19 Jul 2012 4:57 PM
From: Australia
josean,
In what sense of the word did you mean by "slot"?
Written by: josean, 19 Jul 2012 5:04 PM
From: United States, Fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia; Guillermo Moreno President 2016
Not in the way you’re trying to sophomorically distort!
From: Dominican Republic, La Romana
The 1,5 M could have been spent sending the patient to Miami, Florida, USA. A lot more experience there, and the operation is a lot cheeper. And the patient has more chance to survive. As she will be unable to pay follow up medicine, I give her six months. Those doctors are not going to pay for her, their name and fame has been made. Now they are going into private practice.
First get the national insurance up to par, so the everyone has the same medical rights in this country.
Written by: josean, 19 Jul 2012 5:26 PM
From: United States, Fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia; Guillermo Moreno President 2016
GoneNative,
Thank you!
Written by: Pedrin, 19 Jul 2012 5:40 PM
From: United States
That headline is very misleading. I'm pretty sure that Dr. Chan Aquino performed that procedure a FEW decades ago.
Written by: josean, 19 Jul 2012 5:44 PM
From: United States, Fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia; Guillermo Moreno President 2016
Remember, between 1492 and 1996 when the PURPLE MESSIAH arrived, nothing happen in DR worth mentioning!
Written by: vacanos, 19 Jul 2012 5:56 PM
From: United States, An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
Atabey Great. Now give Hipolito Mejia a brain transplant!"
"Josean is at the top of the list ahead of him. LOL"
LOL
Written by: josean, 19 Jul 2012 6:03 PM
From: United States, Fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia; Guillermo Moreno President 2016
"Atabey Great."
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."
Vcanos practicing what he preaches!
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"the uninsured patient"
She aslo had to give up her USELESS METRO Card!
Why don't bring that up ?
Josean, Medical Insurance is something that you must pay for, are you so busy riding a Burro when you can easily ride an efficient Metro line (?) Clean with less pollution and little environmental/ecological impact (!)
From: Turkey, Ham & Cheese
Great. Now give Hipolito Mejia a brain transplant!"
Josean is at the top of the list ahead of him. LOL
However I wonder, how may other lives could have been saved had the RD$1.5 million been spent elsewhere?
The same applies to the recent very high-profile and very expensive Boca Chica Siamese-twins separation operation, paid for by Dominican taxpayers, through the 1st Lady Slush-fund, and the free new house built for the unmarried underage uneducated mother and her daughter, symbolically the 7-billionth on this planet.
"Written by: Atabey, 19 Jul 2012 1:55 PM
From: United States, NYC
"Written by: Chompiras, 19 Jul 2012 1:28 PM
From: Turkey, Ham & Cheese
Great. Now give Hipolito Mejia a brain transplant!"
Josean is at the top of the list ahead of him. LOL'
I asked, that you be given my slot for your sexual reassignment surgery!
So you and Lie-onel after the 16th can RIDE into the sunset and live happily ever after!
In what sense of the word did you mean by "slot"?
Not in the way you’re trying to sophomorically distort!
First get the national insurance up to par, so the everyone has the same medical rights in this country.
GoneNative,
Thank you!
Remember, between 1492 and 1996 when the PURPLE MESSIAH arrived, nothing happen in DR worth mentioning!
Atabey Great. Now give Hipolito Mejia a brain transplant!"
"Josean is at the top of the list ahead of him. LOL"
LOL
"Atabey Great."
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."
Vcanos practicing what he preaches!