Kidney transplants in Singapore hit by Covid-19 even as wait list grows; cases increasing as 6,168 new infections reported

SINGAPORE, June 26 (The Straits Times/ANN): The number of kidney transplants - already decreasing before the Covid-19 pandemic hit - has fallen over the past two years, even as the waiting time for a donor kidney grows longer.

In 2019, there were 33 kidney transplant operations involving deceased donors carried out in Singapore; but only 15 kidney transplants took place in 2020 and just 24 last year.