{"id":21484,"date":"2008-12-19T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2008-12-19T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/medical-first\/"},"modified":"2008-12-19T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2008-12-19T01:43:56","slug":"medical-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2008\/12\/19\/medical-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical first"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Plaza de la Salud Hospital has completed three simultaneous organ transplants from one single cadaver, a first for the DR. The operations took place on 4 December, but the patients, ages 44, 52 and 44, were all released from the hospital yesterday. A total of twenty doctors took part in the surgery which was led by Chief of Transplant Jiomar Figueroa. Julio Amado Castanos Guzman, head of the hospital&#8217;s board of trustees, said there needs to be more coordination between hospitals because organs that could be used in transplants are lost every day. Figueroa thanked the organ donor&#8217;s family, saying that they had been very receptive to the idea of donating the organs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Plaza de la Salud Hospital has completed three simultaneous organ transplants from one single cadaver, a first for the DR. The operations took place on 4 December, but the patients, ages 44, 52 and 44, were all released from the hospital yesterday. A total of twenty doctors took part in the surgery which was &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2008\/12\/19\/medical-first\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[227,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21484"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}