Illegal Transplants Lands Doctor in Deep Trouble

The names of three other hospitals involved in the supposed illegal transplant operations have been revealed by the professor who was implicated in the Durban hospital transplant scandal.

According to the Professor’s revelation, Johannesburg’s Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital, Cape Town’s Chris Barnard Memorial Hospital and Netcare’s Garden City Hospital are also involved in 220 cases.

New Kidney Transplant Policy Could Give Preference to Younger Patients
The United Network for Organ Sharing in the US is mulling new proposals that will change the prevailing organ transplant guidelines.

Gauteng health department has asked for a thorough investigation into Robbs’ allegations.

Maintaining his innocence , Robbs holds on to not pleading guilty for “something he did not do”

USC Transplanted Kidney in a Wrong Patient
A kidney was accidentally transplanted in a wrong patient at USC University Hospital, following which the hospital has shut down its kidney transplant program last month.

Source-Medindia

FDA Approves New Test to Monitor Level of Drug in Kidney Transplant Patients
The US Food and Drug Administration has revealed that it has approved a new test which will monitor the level of a drug which is used in kidney transplant patients