Your Editorial (December 2) misses the opportunity to publicise the success of living kidney transplantation. About 1,000 living kidney transplants take place in UK each year of which nearly 100 are donations to the NHS from a stranger.
These donations are the most useful, have several benefits and and increasingly each enables a further two kidney transplants.
NHS Blood and Transplant is encouraging such actions and information about living kidney donation is being made available in Blood Donation facilities.
All of us should publicise that any healthy UK adult can offer to give a kidney to a stranger during life. Indeed 615 have already done so. With at least 250 people dying each year for lack of a kidney and thousands being on long-term dialysis the need is really urgent.
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Organ transplantion rates in UK
Your Editorial (December 2) misses the opportunity to publicise the success of living kidney transplantation. About 1,000 living kidney transplants take place in UK each year of which nearly 100 are donations to the NHS from a stranger.
These donations are the most useful, have several benefits and and increasingly each enables a further two kidney transplants.
NHS Blood and Transplant is encouraging such actions and information about living kidney donation is being made available in Blood Donation facilities.
All of us should publicise that any healthy UK adult can offer to give a kidney to a stranger during life. Indeed 615 have already done so. With at least 250 people dying each year for lack of a kidney and thousands being on long-term dialysis the need is really urgent.
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