'It's a huge comfort our daughter saved someone else's life': 190 organ transplants carried out this year
Ninety donors were involved in the process – 62 people who had died and 28 living donors.
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Ninety donors were involved in the process – 62 people who had died and 28 living donors.
Transplants through deceased donors are down 25% on last year.
Rebecca Maher’s daughter died at just eight months old, but was able to give a new life to someone waiting on a kidney transplant.
Simon Harris said he hopes more people will donate organs through he Human Tissue Bill.
The plans will be debated at the Oireachtas Health Committee today.
Emma O’Sullivan has gone through two organ transplants due to an illness she has experienced since birth.
The Bill also provides for non-directed altruistic kidney donation.
The launched was attended by Ambassador Ray D’Arcy and Minister for Health Simon Harris.
Luke Doherty was added to the transplant waiting list when one of his lungs collapsed.
Vera Dwyer (77) had her transplant operation in 1988 in the UK after being diagnosed with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF).
Currently, donors can get accomodation, travel and wages reimbursed up to €16,000.
On a typical day, the Irish Kidney Association would receive 20 to 50 requests for organ donor cards.
‘Ordinary people get to do extraordinary things.’
The former Dublin hurler is also receiving treatment for skin cancer.
An IKA spokesperson said that this was six to seven times more than the usual amount for this period.
This included 51 kidneys from living donors.
The journalist and Cystic Fibrosis activist has long campaigned for more awareness about the condition.
In September, he was diagnosed IPF (idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis) a rare and incurable lung condition.
Health Minister Simon Harris today launched a six-week public consultation on an opt-out organ donation scheme.
Health Minister Simon Harris plans to introduce an opt out system in Ireland in the near future.
“A death has occurred, but a life is also saved and enhanced.”
Nevaeh Gale-Spollen was just weeks away from her 10th brithday when she died from a brain haemorrhage.
“Donating your organs is the most selfless act that anybody can actually do.”
Sam Kinahan was born with a severe bladder defect, leaving him in end-stage renal failure.
Graham Bright had just begun a new job in when he ended up in St Vincent’s Hospital with end-stage kidney failure.
Eleven members of the family have been diagnosed with the same unusual hereditary kidney condition called Tubulo Nephritis.
Shauna Morrissey has cystic fibrosis and is campaigning for an opt-out organ donation system.
Helen Taylor died while waiting for a double lung transplant in 2014.
Dr Noel Howard said it was “an easy decision” to make.
Gavin Coyne passed away yesterday while awaiting surgery in Freeman Hospital Newcastle.
Of all the things that companies are trying to flog this Valentine’s Day, the best gift is your heart. Your actual pound-of-flesh beating heart.
The father of Myles Jordan said that the boy is doing incredibly well after receiving a life-saving kidney transplant.
Nicole Ryan’s brother Alex went into cardiac arrest after taking an extremely potent synthetic drug.
A report released today shows the increase in Ireland in organ donations.
Myles was born with a rare disorder, requiring the eventual removal of both of his kidneys.
Laura Dolan had been suffering from a series of liver ailments for six years prior to her transplant in September 2015.
Trevor Sullivan’s life was saved after he received a donor heart.
The former Dublin hurler has set up a support service for people dealing with renal failure.
Almost 2,000 people in Ireland are on dialysis.
The NHS has teamed up with the dating app for an organ donor campaign.