SINGAPORE Covid-19

2022 - 6 - 24

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Kidney transplants in Singapore hit by Covid-19 even as wait list ... (The Straits Times)

In 2019, there were 33 kidney transplant operations involving deceased donors carried out in Singapore; but only 15 kidney transplants took place in 2020 and ...

Mr Koh Cheun Yang, 44, has been on the kidney transplant wait list for 14 years. For patients with end-stage disease, kidney transplants are often the best option. "I've been living my life normally, so it's not a big blow to me. This dropped to between 30 and 40 yearly after Covid-19 struck. The average waiting time for a kidney from a deceased donor is now 97.4 months, or just over eight years. There are more than 8,500 dialysis patients in Singapore.

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Kidney transplants in Singapore hit by Covid-19 even as wait list ... (The Star Online)

In 2019, there were 33 kidney transplant operations involving deceased donors carried out in Singapore; but only 15 kidney transplants took place in 2020 and ...

Of the new cases, 5,654 were local transmissions and 514 were imported cases. For patients with end-stage disease, kidney transplants are often the best option. - The Straits Times/ANN The average waiting time for a kidney from a deceased donor is now 97.4 months, or just over eight years. There are more than 8,500 dialysis patients in Singapore. There were 330 people on the transplant wait list in 2019 and 371 last year.

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