We anticipate a tsunami in public healthcare: Covid creates dialysis crisis

Doctors say transplant suspension has put programme under severe strain and restricts access to new patients

23 November 2021 - 19:27

Almost two years after organ transplants were suspended due to Covid-19, which increases transplant patients’ risks of dying, some public health specialists say it is time to consider reviving this life-saving procedure...

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