Key facts
- Hong Kong's Hospital Authority is seeking a heart and lung donor.
- The appeal is for a critically ill 13-year-old girl named Ching Ching.
- Ching Ching suffers from pulmonary hypertension and heart failure.
- She is currently supported by an ECMO machine at Hong Kong Children's Hospital.
Hong Kong's Hospital Authority has issued an urgent appeal for a heart and lung donation to save a critically ill 13-year-old girl. The patient, identified as Ching Ching, is suffering from severe pulmonary hypertension and heart failure. She is currently being kept alive at Hong Kong Children's Hospital with the support of an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) machine, a device that artificially performs the function of the heart and lungs.