The parents of Felipe Mulet Gómez, a four-year-old boy from Alicante who died on March 30, have donated their son’s organs “to save the lives of other children.” This is how the newspaper La Opinión de Murcia narrates it, detailing that the minor died of bacterial meningitis at the General Hospital of Alicante. “He was a very smart child, super fun, playful, wanting to play like any other, but very obedient,” the father pointed out to this means of communication.
“Our son has died to help six children,” the parents told La Opinión. “We are broken but we have another 3-year-old son and we can’t do anything but cry when we can. This is a kind of tribute to the child,” explains the father, José Mulet, about his decision to publicize the decision to donate the small organs, heart, lungs and other vital organs.
“Despite this stick, in 15 minutes the alarms went off and they prepared everything to start it up. It never crossed our minds that this would happen to our son and that we would consider the donation. We had a small hope that a miracle. When they said no, the miracle was him. We donated all his organs. If we can help why we weren’t going to do it. It’s what we have left, in a way it’s through other children,” he adds to the newspaper.
Felipe developed meningitis from a bacterium despite the fact that, the parents explain, he was vaccinated with three doses of the meningococcal B vaccine. Health inoculates babies against this disease at two, four and twelve months of age, and now assumes the cost of the vaccine, which is around 100 euros per dose, but the parents of this child paid for them since at that time the families paid for it. The doctors explained that in 98.7% of cases it is effective.
