World News | Double Lung Transplant Virus Survivor Going Home

Warsaw, Sep 7 (AP) Doctors say Poland's first double lung transplant COVID-19 patient is feeling fine and will be going home this week.

Doctors who treated 45-year-old Grzegorz Lipinski said Monday that the double transplant was the only way to save him after the virus almost totally his lungs.

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Lipinski is head of the medical instruments sterilisation room at a hospital in Tychy, southern Poland, that only treats COVID-19 patients.

He was initially treated there then was moved to the University Hospital in Krakow, where he was put on the ExtraCorporeal Membrane Oxygenation, which is a system that performs the functions of the lungs.

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He had the double transplant at the Silesia Center of Heart Diseases in Zabrze in July.

Prof Marian Zembala, the center's chief, says Lipinski is due to go home Tuesday.(AP)

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