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| Parents file suit in girl's lung transplant case- DR. MANNY: Sebelius, save girl, don't hide behind rules- Lawmakers urge Sebelius to act on girl's transplant Jun 5th 2013, 21:46 Published June 05, 2013 Associated Press -
In this May 30, 2013 photo provided by the Murnaghan family, Sarah Murnaghan, left, lies in her hospital bed next to adopted sister Ella on the 100th day of her stay in Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. The 10-year-old suburban Philadelphia girl has been hospitalized at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia for three months with end-stage cystic fibrosis. Her family wants an exception made for Sarah to get an adult lung, because so few pediatric lungs become available. Kathleen Sebelius, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, says she doesn't want to intervene in transplant decisions when other children are just as sick. Sarah's relatives say they want the policy changed for all children awaiting a lung transplant, not just Sarah. (AP Photo/Murnaghan family)AP2013
The parents of a 10-year-old girl who urgently needs a lung transplant have filed a lawsuit asking a federal judge to change organ-donation rules for children. Lawyers for Janet and Francis Murnaghan filed the lawsuit Wednesday in Philadelphia. They say existing rules discriminate against children under the age of 12 by giving older candidates priority for donated adult lungs. Joel Newman, a spokesman for the Virginia-based United Network for Organ Sharing, says he isn't aware of any previous court action that had "a material effect" on a transplant case. On Tuesday, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius declined to intervene. The lawsuit seeks an emergency hearing and an order changing the rules. The lawyers say Sarah Murnaghan will die soon without new lungs.  |  |
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