El Siglo reports that Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center medics have given up on Ilianov de León Albino, the 14-year old Dominican whose parents launched a nationwide campaign to gather the US$425,000 needed for a bone marrow transplant to save their son. News reports from New York City indicate that the side effects of the radiotherapy to which he was submitted prior to the transplant caused neurological damages that are irreversible. Ironically, his body has assimilated well the bone marrow transplant. He has been in the hospital now for eight months. Sixty-one days have gone by since the bone marrow transplant. According to El Siglo, the medics gave their fatal diagnosis to Ilianov’s parents yesterday. Ilianov is in coma.
