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Man is notified about transplant on trail and is rescued by helicopter by firefighters. Ricardo Medeiros de Oliveira, 48, had been on the waiting list for a kidney transplant for nine years. Last Saturday, the 23rd, he received notification that a compatible organ had appeared. However, at the time, he was on a trail in the Serra dos Órgãos National Park, in Rio, at an altitude of over 2 thousand meters. With that, the Rio de Janeiro Fire Department used a helicopter to take the man to the Santa Casa Hospital in Juiz de Fora (MG). The patient was taken to the city of Minas Gerais in less than two hours; the transplant was performed and Oliveira is recovering from the surgery. #terranoticias ------------- Subscribe to Terra's YouTube channel ▸ / terra ------------- Follow the main news from Brazil and the world on Terra ▸ https://www.terra.com.br ------------- Follow Terra on social media Facebook▸ / terrabrasil Instagram ▸ / terrabrasil Twitter ▸ / terra TikTok ▸ / terrabrasil Pinterest ▸ / terrabrasil