The long wait for organs
YESTERDAY, South Africa’s official cumulative death rate from Covid-19 hit 45605. Now experts are warning 10% more South Africans could perish if they don’t get the vital organ transplants that the pandemic has denied them.
The reasons are two-fold: coronavirus has temporarily halted transplants and the donor pool is shrinking too because of the prohibition of alcohol sales that had been in place until earlier this week.
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