Gift of life
Jun 06, 2021
3 minutes
by Nicky Pellegrino
Last year, 186 people had life-saving organ transplants from deceased donors in New Zealand – most commonly receiving a new kidney but also livers, lungs, hearts and even a few pancreases. Many more patients had their lives and health improved by transplants of heart valves, corneas and skin. Despite the pandemic, with its various alert levels and lockdowns, those surgeries kept happening.
“I don’t think we lost any opportunities because
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