Durham, United States of America
JESICA SANTILLAN'S PARENTS ANSWER QUESTIONS FROM THE MEDIA.
Magdalena Santillan (R), her husband Melesio Huerta (L), and her niece
America Santillan (C), who is also acting as translator, listen to
questions from the media during a press conference held February 20,
2003 at the Brookwood Inn in Durham, Nort Carolina regarding the
botched heart-lung transplant procedure that took place with her
daughter Jesica Santillan. Jesica received a heart-lung transplant at
Duke University Medical Center with organs that did not match her blood
type and a second set of organs became available to Santillan early
Thursday morning. Doctors have given Jesica a fifty-fifty chance of
surviving the second surgery. REUTERS/Ellen Ozier
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