Bernama Kidney patients in Malaysia will have to wait longer to get a kidney transplant as the number of registered donors in the country is a far cry from the number of kidney patients.
National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (Niosh) chairman Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye said this was because between 1997 and last month, the number of people who had registered as kidney donors stood at 4,318, while the number of patients on the waiting list for suitable kidney had reached 14,000.
"Furthermore, not all who had registered as donors managed to get the plan properly executed," he told Bernama here Saturday.
Lee said most kidney patients in the country had to undergo dialysis treatment on a weekly basis and had to rely on the dialysis machine for survival.
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