Surgeon calls for people to join organ donation register -UK

The Star


A TOP surgeon in Sheffield has urged people to sign up to help save lives and join the national organ donor register.

Badri Shrestha, consultant transplant surgeon at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, is part of a team which carries out 60 kidney transplants a year.

He said: “Organ transplants are so important - they improve survival rates and markedly improve quality of life for patients and their families.”

This week, to mark National Transplant Week, The Star has featured some of the 205 people in South Yorkshire living in limbo as they await an organ donor.

In Sheffield, the regional centre for kidney transplants, a matching donor means the chance to come off dialysis.

Mr Shrestha said: “If we leave patients with organ failure their quality of life is severely compromised.

“Just 25 per cent of people in South Yorkshire are on the donor register - and the family refusal rate for transplants is 45 per cent.

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