Today is National Transplant Day

We closed off with Dr Elmi Muller - President of the South African Transplant Society. She was talking about the National Transplant Day. Today marks the National Transplant Day and it is reported that there are over 4 300 people throughout South Africa currently awaiting an organ and cornea transplant operation. Less than 600 transplants are performed each year and many adults and children die waiting for a life-saving transplant. The South African Transplant Society is an organization that confers unity to the entire Transplantation Community of South Africa, maintaining the status quo between a diversity of disciplines and transplant centres, creating a forum for discussion and debate. For further information you can contact the Society on (031) 368 8000 or visit www.sats.org.za