According to the media, actor and producer Jorge Ortiz de Pinedo is in poor health and urgently needs a lung transplant to improve his health.
Let’s remember that for some time, the 74-year-old actor has lived connected to an oxygen concentrator to be able to breathe due to the complications he suffers from lung cancer that he has suffered for more than a decade and for which he has settled in Miami , Florida, United States, awaiting an organ transplant.
Through a magazine publication TVNotes It was reported that the actor urgently needs the transplant, because, according to a source close to Jorge, the producer’s organs no longer function correctly after having defeated the disease twice and having suffered from pneumonia three times.
According to the anonymous informant, for a couple of weeks, the protagonist of A family of ten He settled in Miami while he is on the transplant waiting list on the recommendation of his doctor, since the specialist determined that it was “time to start moving and look for a lung.”
Due to this, the actor preferred to be close and available to go to the hospital as soon as there is a donor. In addition to this, the source assured that Jorge Ortiz de Pinedo is going through an extremely difficult moment of health.
The problem is that it is not easy to get a lung transplant, Jorge is on a waiting list. In addition, they will do studies to see which ones could be compatible with his body and life. As far as I know, he’s about to get them, but time keeps passing and his health is declining more and more.
However, despite this situation, the informant stated that the actor is very optimistic and has not lost the will to live, on the contrary, he is doing everything possible to move on.
It should be noted that before this publication, the actor responded through a text message, in which he denied the statements of the source, as he assured that his state of health is not serious or critical enough to depend on oxygen all the time. . However, he does alternate his life between Acapulco and Miami because it is at sea level, where he assures that he is very happy with his wife.
I am in a medical protocol for my disease: COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) and in an exhaustive ‘check up’, because in passing I asked to see the possibility of being taken into account to one day enter the list of candidates for transplantation .
Source: Okchicas
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