Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

American citizen dies during Cancun vacation and donates kidneys that saved teenage girl in Jalisco

Puerto Vallarta, Mexico - A 17-year-old Jalisco patient urgently received a kidney from the IMSS multi‐organ donation in Quintana Roo. The donated organs were made by an American women who passed away on vacation in Cancun.

A 17-year-old patient in Jalisco who faced life-threatening complications from acute kidney failure received a kidney today, thanks to a historic IMSS multi‐organ donation in Quintana Roo. Local transplant surgeons performed the surgery with the donated organ arriving under a dedicated ambulance convoy and medical escort, marking a critical turnaround for the teenager . . .

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