Two more years of grafting people?

The fictitious story for the 'monster' Frankeinstein could become a reality in this 21st century for $ 13 million.

'What will happen when an old billionaire Chinese people are willing to spend money to own a new body? Imagine the prospect that we will have an Albert Einstein with the head of a scientist attached to a new body? '. Italian neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero has shocked the world by claiming to be able to perform human head transplants over the next two years at a cost of about $ 13 million - the price that he has not equal to income. every year a footballer '.

His statement was much more explosive when he was published in the journal Surgical Neurology International in the United States very seriously and he was confident in the 'scientific breakthrough in medicine' that he was about to implement. In 2008, Prof. Canavero became famous when he could 'wake up' a woman who was in a coma and lived a plant life for more than two years.

In an interview with Swiss newspaper Le Matin, Prof. Canavero confirmed that the project was completely grounded in 'continuing the positive results that American Professor Robert J. White succeeded in transplanting a monkey's head. in the 1970s'. Accordingly, the most difficult stage when performing head implants in humans is 'spinal cord recovery' thanks to the use of chemical materials to restore nerves.

Scene in Frankeinstein's Child film - (Photo: AFP)

The actual needs of this project are real.'The recipient (ie the new body recipient) is paralyzed, but the brain is still active or the patient has cancer but does not spread to the brain. And the other side said that people with brain death due to trauma but other organs are not affected and the body is still healthy " - Prof. Canavero further explained that donors and recipients are forced to be the same sex, physique and group matching blood.

However, Professor Canavero said the surgery would be very complicated when it comes to mobilizing more than 100 people. They must coordinate smoothly and quickly. The transplant procedure is described as follows: two groups of surgeons will work in parallel. The 'recipient's head' team will keep the head cold to avoid injury to the brain, muscles, trachea, esophagus, blood vessels that are separated from the neck and are ready to be transplanted. The other group prepares the 'donor's body' with the same operations as the first group.

At the transplant stage, doctors only need to connect nerve tissue together. The most difficult is the stage of cutting the spinal part of the donor and recipient and placing them in the right position so that the agency continues to operate afterwards.

If the surgery is successful, the patient will need a long time to recover and be treated with a medication to avoid harming the transplant. In addition, patients also need psychotherapy to receive new bodies and learn to exercise with physical therapy exercises.

Many moral questions

The surgical procedure explained seems simple, but the medical problem causes quite a lot of anxiety in the medical profession. It is remembered that Prof. Robert J. White after the first grafting on monkeys was forced to 'painlessly' kill two monkeys after a series of complications. Prof. Canavero believes that the two-year period is enough to gather the team of experts who can perform the transplant and find recipients and donors.

But the question is the moral and legal framework for this scientific breakthrough. Prof. Canavero and some scientists are worried about not building quickly, but it does not exclude the possibility of someone taking advantage of this transplant method to 'regenerate' illegally. Accordingly, Prof. Canavero asked 'to promulgate the general rules of ethics' when implementing the first implant method so that the surgery does not fall into the hands of poor quality doctors or they work for another benefit.

Answering in the online newspaper aufeminin.com, Mrs. Sandrine de Montgolfier - expert on ethics - expressed concern: 'The problem now is that we only look at science under the lens of hope. Therefore, medical concerns are often affected because, if given doubts, being labeled is an obstacle to the development of society. In my opinion, it is important for each individual to question what the human thought is, what society is and how to live with it. I am a scientist and I think science can lead us to good things but science is not allowed to stipulate what we should do. '