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Twenty-nine life-saving kidney transplants have been performed in NI over the past two-and-a-half weeks.
Transplant surgery was initially stopped because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
But almost one third of NI's kidney transplant waiting list has since been cleared.
That is down to a successful collaboration between Belfast City Hospital, the Royal Victoria Hospital and the Ulster Independent Clinic.
Kidney transplant consultant Dr Aisling Courtney, of the City Hospital, believes it is a remarkable achievement amid the current strain being put on the NHS.
"To do so many transplants in such a short space of time is almost unbelievable," she said.
They usually do about 2 or three over Jan /Feb March.
NHS under so much stress, potentially, they feared
So much time on their hands and all these kidneys to transplant. How beautifully coincidental
Twenty-nine life-saving kidney transplants have been performed in NI over the past two-and-a-half weeks.
Transplant surgery was initially stopped because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
But almost one third of NI's kidney transplant waiting list has since been cleared.
That is down to a successful collaboration between Belfast City Hospital, the Royal Victoria Hospital and the Ulster Independent Clinic.
Kidney transplant consultant Dr Aisling Courtney, of the City Hospital, believes it is a remarkable achievement amid the current strain being put on the NHS.
"To do so many transplants in such a short space of time is almost unbelievable," she said.
They usually do about 2 or three over Jan /Feb March.
NHS under so much stress, potentially, they feared
So much time on their hands and all these kidneys to transplant. How beautifully coincidental
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