Thousands in peril amid long wait for organs
YESTERDAY, South Africa’s official cumulative death rate from Covid-19 hit 45 605. Now experts are warning 10% more South Africans – adults and children – could perish if they don’t get the vital organ transplants that the pandemic has denied them.
The reasons are two-fold: Covid-19 has temporarily halted all transplants, but the donor pool is shrinking too – because of the prohibition of alcohol sales that had been in place until
