SingHealth and Duke-NUS Medical School have launched a new disease centre for transplant expertise, including research and education, in an effort to improve transplant care and increase access to organs.
Speaking at the launch at Singapore General Hospital yesterday, Health Minister Gan Kim Yong said:"This new transplant centre aims to harmonise SingHealth's clinical expertise for transplant with its research and education capabilities. He said the centre will see healthcare professionals from different disciplines - such as dietitians, physiotherapists, nurses and doctors - working together to improve transplant care, increase access to organs and reduce waiting time.
Solid organs like the kidney, heart and liver are now taken from donors only after brain death, he said.But if doctors can retrieve the organs within about 55 minutes of circulatory death, they can still be used for transplants, said Prof Prema Raj. The launch was held on the first day of the hospital's 23rd annual scientific meeting, which ends today.
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