São Paulo
This Monday (21), TV Bandeirantes launched the “Donate Organs, Donate Life” campaign. The initiative, which seeks to raise awareness for organ and tissue donation, was officially announced during the premiere of the program Melhor da Noite, which occupies the time slot that previously belonged to Faustão na Band. The presenter needs to undergo a heart transplant, as informed in a medical bulletin this Sunday (20).
The action led by the broadcaster was explained by the presenters of the new program, Zeca Camargo and Glenda Kozlowski, who interviewed the current minister of health, Nísia Trindade. Before that, the duo honored Faustão. “Fausto is the father of this Brazil, everyone grew up watching him and we all have a bit of Fausto with us, we learned to have a more optimistic, more loving, more fun look with him, because he knows how to have fun very well. The man with the biggest heart in Brazil needs a new heart,” said Glenda.
According to the Ministry of Health, Brazil has the largest public organ transplant system in the world and is the second largest transplant country in the world, behind only the USA. The structure is managed by the Ministry itself, which ensures that 90% of surgeries are performed through the Unified Health System (SUS).
This Sunday, the Albert Einstein Hospital, where Faustão is hospitalized, reported that the communicator is undergoing dialysis and is being monitored by doctors while waiting for a compatible donor to receive the organ. Faustão has been hospitalized since the 5th of August. “He is under intensive care and, due to the worsening of the condition, there is an indication for a heart transplant. The patient is on dialysis and in need of medication to help with the pumping strength of the heart”, says an excerpt.
“Fausto Silva has already been included in the single line of transplants, governed by the State Department of Health of São Paulo, which takes into account, for the definition of prioritization, the waiting time, the blood type and the severity of the case”, says the note signed by the team of doctors Fernando Bacal, cardiologist, and Miguel Cendoroglo Neto, Medical Director and Hospital Services.
