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Donate Life California to give shoppers an opportunity to register as organ, eye and tissue donors throughout April for National Organ Donation Month.
There are more than 100,000 people currently waiting for a lifesaving transplant, and more than 22,000 of them live in California.
“California still lags behind the national average of organ donors, and our goal is to close that gap,” Jim Martin, CEO, Donate Life California said in a statement. “We are grateful to partner with Goodwill of Orange County, a respected organization that has given us access to a whole new way to register donors.”
According to Martin, transplants were halted during the beginning months of the coronavirus pandemic with hospitals anticipating an increased demand for their ICU and emergency beds. There was also concern over the spread of the virus between donor and recipient. However, organ procurement organizations immediately began testing every potential donor to ensure no transmission, and the s
Experts explore treatment of chronic kidney disease
5 hours ago
Mariecar Jara-Puyod,
Senior Reporter
Kidney Paired Donation (KPD) or Paired Kidney Donation (PKD) is seen by specialists as the solution to the global burden of chronic kidney disease (CKD) even as these specialists believe this form of living donor kidney transplant also has challenges, one of which is the need for this to be fully understood and embraced by the medical/healthcare workers, the donors-recipients and their families, as well as other support systems.
The discussions were made possible when the Abu Dhabi Health Services Company-SEHA Kidney Care (SKC) hosted a recent webinar on “Paired Kidney Donation From Theory to Implementation: Local, Regional and International Perspectives” wherein UAE National Organ Donation and Transplantation Committee chairman/SKC chief medical officer Dr Ali Al Obaidli pointed out that while CKD is a “huge burden” and “transplantation is one of the mira