Shortage of surgeons causing ‘transplant crisis’

A SHORTAGE of transplant surgeons and kidney donors is leading to an “accelerating crisis” within the service, the head of the National Organ Procurement Service warned yesterday.

Donal Hickey, director of transplantation services at Beaumont Hospital, said both issues had to be tackled head on.

“There are two crises in transplant at the moment - the lack of organs and of people to do the surgery.