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For several years now, the health of Jorge Ortiz de Pinedo has found itself in a delicate situation, since since then it has to be connected to a oxygen tank that he carries with him wherever he goes, but now it’s getting a lot more complicated because his lungs They are very damaged and need a transplantalthough unfortunately there is a problem with donors.
The comedian announced that he is on the waiting list to be the lucky one and receive a lung transplant and it is worth noting that the main reason why both are damaged is that it had cancer from which he fortunately managed to recover.
“In my case it would have to be both. They removed cancer from my left lung and another from my right lung. “My two lungs are very affected,” he told the Hoy program.
Likewise, they had to remove some lung fragments, So now he needs new organs to avoid problems breathing, and it is very difficult for him to do so when he is in Mexico City, which is where he has to use the oxygen tanks, where the altitude is also a problem for him.
It should be noted that for 47 years he was considered a active smoker and now his lungs are taking a toll on him and causing severe health problems such as the cancer that we already mentioned that he had in his left lung and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD).
Jorge Ortiz de Pinedo seeks lung donors
After the left upper lobe was removed and the middle lobe of the right lung was removed, now his ability to breathe has been much more affected and he even had to leave CDMX and live on the beachboth in Acapulco and Miami, due to the altitude.
The protagonist of “A Family of 10” assures that the long wait for the transplant It is not because of the lack of donorsOn the contrary, there are many people interested in doing it, the real problem is that their relatives do not want the process to be carried out once they die.
“The problem is not the donor, there are many lungs, the problem is that the family accepts that someone said: ‘I want to be a donor’, because by law they have to ask the relatives, and where one of the children says: ´-No, no´. Everything stops, in Mexico there are few transplants,” he told “Come Joy.”
Now he just waits for the time to come to be able to receive a transplant, because it is candidate for the procedure to be carried out: “I am suitable, they have already reviewed me, I am a candidate, they will have to decide if it is done and when it is done.”