A dying German woman has been given the chance of staying alive by a Chinese resident's stem cells donation.
Shanghai airport opened a green channel for the airlift on Tuesday of the hematopoietic stem cells from the city to Germany.
The airport's action was crucial as if the cells are stored or transported improperly, they will die. The Shanghai General Station of Immigration Inspection sent a team with German-speaking police to assist in the transportation.
Officials from the German National Bone Marrow Donor Registry were accompanied from Shanghai General Hospital to Pudong International Airport. They went through the Customs check via the green channel. The Lufthansa flight carrying the cells arrived in Munich around noon on Wednesday.
The Shanghai resident's cells matched those of the German woman.
Shanghai has 160,000 volunteers registered to be hematopoietic stem cell donors. The city has recorded 381 successful cases of cross-border donation and transportation.
