Charity chief ‘devastated’ after Belfast Trust turns down kidneys for life-saving ops due to Covid pressures 

Belfast City Hospital, where a number of surgeries have been cancelled due to Covid pressures (Paul Faith/PA)

A charity chief has said it is “devastating” that a Northern Ireland health trust was unable to accept kidneys for life-saving transplant operations due to Covid pressures on hospitals.

The Belfast Trust said it was offered a number of healthy kidneys from deceased donors at the weekend, but had to turn them down because staff had been redeployed to help care for Covid patients.