Transplant waiting list patients who have not been vaccinated get a reprieve after Ireland’s Kidney Transplant Service sought suspension of unvaccinated patients from the waiting list.
Top management at the National Kidney Transplant Service based at Beaumont Hospital, Ms Dilly Little and Dr Colm Magee, said in a letter to Beaumont dated 3 August that the transmission risk of new Covid variants meant they felt it would not be possible to offer transplants to unvaccinated recipients reports the Irish Examiner.
A spokesperson for Beaumont Hospital in North Dublin, reiterated that “no patient, regardless of vaccination status, will be or has been removed from the transplant list”.
Dr David Hickey, a well known surgeon lashed out at the management of Beaumont Hospital saying ““It is inconceivable that some pen pusher overrides the decisions made by senior transplant physicians of internationally recognised expertise”.
Management of Beaumont Hospital “are sticking their noses into critical medical affairs,” Dr Hickey said.
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