Daily life
From May 30 to June 1, Tianjin First Center Hospital and Beijing Angel Mom Charity Foundation jointly held an event called “My Babies with New Liver” – which featured games and a conference devoted to children with liver transplantsin celebration of international Children’s Day.
92 babies, who came from across the country, had new livers after receiving liver transplants. They all met in Tianjin, and spent a memorable holiday. Among these liver-transplanted children, the oldest is 22 years old and the youngest is 5 or 6 months.
During the activity, Tianjin First Center Hospital provided free check-ups and a healthy evaluation by an expert group of these lovely children. On May 31, children came to Flamant Children Education Center, and participated in fun sports games in groups, including obstacle climbing, obstacle running and boat races under the guidance of professionals.
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Hundreds of liver-transplanted children and their parents took photoes at hospital on June 1. [Photo provided to Chinadaily] |
These children, who have experienced severe pain, as well as life and death tests from birth, were full of happiness and joy at that time. Everyone was infected by the bright smile of the children. Children with biliary atresia are usually compared to angels without wings.
After games, the hospital also arranged a special health education lecture, and provided more scientific and safer health life guidelines for the children and their parents. In addition, during the conference, liver transplant experts from Tianjin First Center Hospital and experts from children’s hospitals across the country discussed diagnoses and treatments for biliary atresia and improvement of the long-term survival rate for liver-transplanted children.
Professor Shen Zhongyang, Director of Tianjin First Center Hospital, Li Qimin, Deputy Secretary General of the China National Committee for The Wellbeing of Youth, and Zhu Zonghan, Director of the Chinese Medical Doctors Association, Pediatrician Branch, made speeches at the opening ceremony, and celebrated "Happy Children's Day."
Biliary atresia is a main indicator of children’s liver transplants in China, and is one of a representative number of diseases in newborns and infants. 70 percent of children with biliary atresia need liver transplantation treatment before they grow up. Compatibility between parents’ livers and children’s livers is good, and rejection after transplantation is small, and for some cases, children may stop taking immunosuppressors. Therefore, parents’ livers are the best selection for a children’s liver transplant operation.
The Organ Transplantation Center of Tianjin First Center Hospital was established in 1998, and if the earliest professional children’s liver transplantation team in China. Over 200 children have accepted liver transplantations since the first such operation in 2000.
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Tianjin's first liver-transplants baby is living a healthy life after one year of surgery. [Photo provided to Chinadaily] |
The number and long-term survival rate take the lead domestically in China. Because many of the families of liver-transplanted children suffer from poverty because of illness, the hospital and Beijing Angel Mom Charity Foundation have jointly carried out charitable contributions and similar activities in order to help more children with biliary atresias who have been forced to give up treatment because of economic reasons.
So far, 102 children have recovered and left Tianjin First Center Hospital with the assistance of various funds.
