Miracle Baby’s Silent Cry: From Mysterious Birth to Life-Saving Lung Transplant

A panel called ‘Saving lives, the importance of organ donation’ was organized by the Kocaeli Health Directorate at the congress center on the occasion of 3-9 Organ Donation Week. Kocaeli Governor İlhami Aktaş, Kocaeli University Rector Nuh Zafer Cantürk, Provincial Health Director Yüksel Pehlevan, organ transplant patients and panel guests attended.

Specialist Dr. While Emine Yurt spoke about the process and awareness of organ transplantation, the President of the Kocaeli Bar Association, Lawyer Caner Karakalamış, explained the legal process of organ transplantation. Kocaeli Deputy Mufti Muhammet Suiçmez shared the Islamic dimension of organ donation with the participants.

HE WAS BORN AS AN UNCREATED BABY, AND IT WAS REVEALED THAT HE WAS CALLED ON THE LUNGS.

Organ Transplantation Coordinator of Derince Funda Aliustaoğlu Training and Research Hospital shared the stories of the transplanted patients with the participants. The story of Aygün Mengüllü, who was born in 1977 as a baby who did not cry, was watched with interest by those in the hall. Telling Aygün’s story, Funda Aliustaoğlu said, “The process that started with medical intervention was spent struggling with COPD during childhood and adulthood. “The diagnosis of Mutational Cystic Fibrosis was made completely by chance when a doctor heard Aygün’s cough while checking another patient and asked for a film,” he said.

FIRST HE LOST HIS FATHER, THEN HIS MOTHER

Funda Aliustaoğlu said that the doctor who diagnosed the disease told Aygün, ‘Life cannot continue after 3 years with a 17-kilo lung machine, life ends in the prime days, the only solution is a lung transplant’ and he said, “Aygün was entrusted with his brother after he lost first his father and then his mother. “After this, Aygün accepted to be on the transplant list, he fell ill and was taken to the hospital, where he recovered his health with lungs taken from a cadaver donor,” he said.

FIRST BREATH WITH NEW LUNGS

The first moments of Aygün’s lung transplant, which he took with his new lung, were shown to those in the hall. In the images reflected on the doctors’ cameras, the conversation of the team that performed the surgery with Aygün was played to those in the hall. The teams, who had a successful operation, told Aygün, “Don’t worry, this is something you know, don’t be afraid. This is your first breath with new lungs, don’t be afraid, take a deep breath. Calm down, let’s breathe, big man. Your chest is rising, it’s beautiful. are you ok Can you breathe air comfortably? “Let us hear your voice,” he said. Aygün answered the doctors, “I’m fine,” with the first sound he made with his new lungs. While those in the hall watched those moments with interest, they also gave hope to patients waiting for a transplant.

HIS BROTHER WAS GIVEN HIS KIDNEYS

Another kidney transplant recipient, Mehmet Sancak, shared his story live with those in the hall. Noting that he could not understand that he had kidney disease, Sancak said, “I was referred to a dermatologist. I didn’t understand, but my problem was a kidney. Protein was leaking from the kidney. We had an analysis then, but there was no big problem. The heart doctor told me that I needed a first transplant and that my kidneys were failing. They referred me to Nephrology and said I needed a kidney transplant. When I had kidney disease, we gathered with our elders. I was a little better then. “When my situation worsened, the elders and relatives of my family wanted to help and my brother donated his kidney,” he said.
The program ended with a group photo.