Organ donor day - Carry the gift of life

THIS IS the ninth European Day for Organ Donation and Transplantation.

We have become almost blasé about the tremendous advances in medical science in the last few decades but the hope, the chance of a life renewed, offered to individuals and families by a successful transplant operation remains awe inspiring.

Elsewhere today, Catherine Shanahan describes yet another episode of shame and despair in our health system’s catalogue of failures — the dialysis unit in the Mid West Regional Hospital in Limerick.