70 patients wait more than year for kidney transplant

Seventy patients are waiting more than a year for a live kidney donor transplant, a situation described as “agonising mental torture” by one such patient.

According to the Health Service Executive, the waiting time for live related kidney transplantation at Beaumont Hospital in Dublin has increased to 14 months due to demands on the service.

The hospital had set a target of three to six months from the time of the initial test to the transplant.