Transplant list closed to new patients

Despite a second living transplant operating theatre lying idle at Beaumont Hospital, management have closed the kidney transplant list to new patients, as there are not enough staff to work the theatres.

There is at least 61 people already on the live kidney and pancreas transplant waiting list at the Dublin hospital — the only one that carries out such operations in the country.

Their operations are not going to be affected by the list closure, according to the Irish Kidney Association, but people that have just secured donors and are waiting to join the list will be seriously concerned.