Revamp organ donor ecosystem, says kidney specialist


PETALING JAYA: Very few patients with kidney failure get a transplant as the support for organ donation and transplants is discouraging, says National Heart Institute consultant nephrologist Datuk Dr Ghazali Ahmad (pic).

“The richer countries are doing more transplants, something between 40 and 50 transplants per million population, but for us, the highest I think we ever got was three transplants per million population.

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