Not enough donors, surgeons or teams for organ transplants


  • Nation
  • Sunday, 09 Apr 2017

PETALING JAYA: Malaysia is in critical need of more organ transplant surgeons but even if there were, there is a lack of medical teams to retrieve the organs from deceased donors.

At present, the country has fewer than 10 such surgeons, said the Malaysian Society of Transplan­tation (MST).

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