Jamella Lo loses fight for life: Hong Kong teen passes away after three-week wait for lung transplant
19-year-old Jamella Lo succumbs to a lung infection after public appeal fails to find lung donor.
After more than two weeks waiting for a double-lung organ donation, 19-year-old Jamella Mangali Lo died yesterday afternoon at Queen Mary Hospital.
She died "without much pain or discomfort" from a lung infection at around 2.30pm, said Dr Timmy Au Wing-kuk, the hospital's chief of cardiothoracic surgery.
Speaking through tears, the girl's father, James Lo Yun-fai, said at the hospital: "My daughter is gone, my wife is devastated. I don't know what to do or what to say now."
The girl had been in a critical condition at the Pok Fu Lam hospital since last month, after it was found that she had primary pulmonary hypertension - a rare condition affecting just three or four people in Hong Kong a year.
Doctors had initially said she might have as little as 48 hours to live.