Community Gives $40,000 to Save Young Hospitalized Man in Need of Lung Transplant

An outpouring of community support has raised $40,000 for a 20-year-old patient at Tampa General Hospital who will die without a lung transplant that his family couldn’t afford.

Enock Mezilas, the soft-spoken young man who last week completed his high school diploma as he was fighting for his life, now has enough money to be placed on the transplant waiting list at Tampa General Hospital.

(READ the story at St. Petersburg Times)

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