Transplant for mushroom-poisoned Afghan boy; brother in coma

Doctors at Poland's main children's hospital say they will carry out a liver transplant on a 6-year-old Afghan boy who ate poisonous mushrooms with his family

WARSAW, Poland -- Doctors at Poland’s main children’s hospital said Tuesday that they will carry out a liver transplant on a 6-year-old Afghan boy who ate highly poisonous mushrooms with his family. However his 5-year-old brother is in a coma and they are carrying out tests to establish if he is brain dead. The boys and their older sister, recently evacuated from Afghanistan, were hospitalized last week. The family picked and ate highly poisonous death cap mushrooms in the forest near the center where they were accommodated in Podkowa Lesna, near Warsaw. Doctors at the Center for Children's Health Institute said the older brother is to undergo a transplant on Tuesday. He remains in life-threatening condition. Their 17-year-old sister is in stable condition at the hospital, as are other family members, who were hospitalized elsewhere.