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Doctor donated his own blood to save an 8-year-old-child

Dr. Samuel Weinstein, a well-known heart surgeon in New York, recently established an example to the medical world. He was doing a heart operation of heart valve replacement of an eight-year-old boy in El Salvador. During operation he found that the child is bleeding a lot. He was needed blood immediately. The hospital was running out of blood, that the boy needed, B-negative. The doctor himself was belongs to the blood group B-negative. He, then, left the operation theater and donated his own blood to save the life of the child.

He came back to the operation room and performed the operation. The boy survived the complex heart surgery. The doctor, who made this dreamlike occurrence possible, got wide applause. Hats-off to Dr. Samuel Weinstein, who set an example by taking the kind of step for saving the life of patient.

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