Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 25 April 2013
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children
Organ Donation: Discussion (Resumed)
11:30 am
Prof Peter Conlon:
To address the question of sharing organs among larger areas, many factors go into making up how well kidneys do five and ten years out. The results in Ireland are better than in the UK and much better than in the US. So smaller, in terms of not sharing kidneys over long distances, is often better than sending kidneys that are 24 hours on ice and have travelled half way up and down the country.
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