20Sep/18

‘We always need new donors’: Medics urge UAE residents to give blood – The National


The National

‘We always need new donors‘: Medics urge UAE residents to give blood
The National
MAIN STORY: Dubai patient’s urgent need for blood transfusion puts spotlight on dwindling reserves. Rare blood types are in demand at the Dubai Blood Donation Centre – but strict criteria to keep patients safe means not everyone is a suitable. A recent …

20Sep/18

Disappointment as West Dunbartonshire second worst organ donor registration – The Dumbarton and Vale of Leven Reporter


The Dumbarton and Vale of Leven Reporter

Disappointment as West Dunbartonshire second worst organ donor registration
The Dumbarton and Vale of Leven Reporter
… signed up to the register, including in West Dunbartonshire, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde’s specialist organ donation staff recently hosted a stand to raise awareness at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow, for Organ Donation Week.

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20Sep/18

SGH is first in South-east Asia to perform living donor liver transplant involving incompatible blood groups – The Straits Times


The Straits Times

SGH is first in South-east Asia to perform living donor liver transplant involving incompatible blood groups
The Straits Times
SINGAPORE – A public hospital here has carried out South-east Asia’s first liver transplant involving a living donor and incompatible blood groups. In July last year, Mr Chen Yu Hui, 56 and his son Chen Qingzhong, 32, underwent a 12-hour operation at …