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Organ transplants and donations dipped but carried on during pandemic
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Organs were put on specially chartered flights or were handed from one specialist team to another at hard borders as governments worked in tandem to allow transplant teams to continue operating last year.
All of this was part of a mammoth effort to ensure critically ill patients were still able to receive precious donor organs during the pandemic.
Liver transplant recipient Richard Betteridge at his home in Bendigo.
After the shutdown of kidney transplant services from mid-March to mid-May, the number of people who received organ transplants was 12 per cent lower in 2020 than the previous year, while the number of donors dropped by 16 per cent, the latest national organ donation and transplant data shows.