Pa. girl to leave hospital after lung transplants

Pa. girl to leave hospital after lung transplants

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A spokeswoman for the family of a 10-year-old Pennsylvania girl recovering from two double lung transplants says the child is expected to be released from the hospital later this week.

Tracy Simon says a final decision hasn’t been made on when Sarah Murnaghan, whose case spurred a national debate over the process of getting the organs, will leave Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Janet Murnaghan said Sunday that her daughter had been taken off oxygen, although she still gets support from a machine that helps her to breathe, and has started to walk with the aid of a walker.

The Newtown Square girl with end-stage cystic fibrosis received the transplants in June after a federal judge intervened in her parents’ lawsuit challenging national transplant rules.