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Organ transplants at risk due to coronavirus
NHS Blood and Transplant has warned that the UK's organ transplant network could be forced to shut down as a result of the coronavirus outbreak.
With the increasing pressure on intensive care beds deemed a large contributor, with fewer potential donor families being approached because of the high level of care needed for both donor and recipient, NHSBT also said that there is the risk to transplant patients, who have their immune systems suppressed so their bodies don't reject new organs.
Each year 450 patients die before their transplant can be carried out.
John Forsyth, medical director for transplant and organ donation at NHSBT, said: "When I hear from other countries who have been at the centre of this Covid pandemic, they have got to the point where no transplant is possible in certain regions at all. We may get to that point, and we may get to that point in the next days or weeks. But we are working very hard to keep organ donation and transplant open for as long as possible, accepting the safety of our patients is paramount."
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