'Sarah has been left to die': Parents of 10-year-old girl with cystic fibrosis in need of lung donation plead with public to help save their daughter

•Parents of Sarah Murnaghan ask for help from any family who is able to provide a life-saving lung for their daughter

•On the waiting list for 18 months, Sarah is too young to receive an adult lung through the donor network

Parents say Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius' decision not to override the policy is 'devastating'

By Lydia Warren and Anna Sanders
PUBLISHED: 22:43 EST, 2 June 2013



The Murnaghans issued the call-to-arms after unsuccessful efforts by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to help Sarah.

Though Sebelius asked for the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network to review the policy on lung allocation in a letter Friday, according to The Associated Press, she did not override it. "Secretary Sebelius' decision to not exercise her very clear authority under the law to intervene and mandate a variance that would help save Sarah's life is devastating,' Sarah's parents said in the statement according to the Daily News.


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