Transplant of organs from minor

Transplant of organs from minor

SENDAI, Japan - A medical team arrives at Sendai Airport in Miyagi Prefecture on a chartered flight on April 13, 2011, carrying a cooler box containing lungs for transplant harvested from a minor who was declared brain dead the previous day. It was the first case in which a child aged under 15 has been declared brain dead with family consent in Japan. The airport in northeastern Japan partially resumed domestic flights the same day after the March 11 quake and tsunami.

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