Health
Coronavirus is creating new barriers for Australians in need of organ transplants – SBS News
With COVID-19 impacting transplant waiting lists and the number of organs becoming available, Australians are being encouraged to sign up to the donor register and give someone else a second chance at life.
When Sydney Toro was rushed to hospital sweating, feverish and struggling to breathe in the early hours of the morning, his family feared the worst.
The 49-year-old from Cranebrook in Greater Western Sydney was diagnosed with kidney failure last year and has since had to spend five hours a day, three days a week, on a dialysis machine in hospital.
But for people like him, the coronavirus pandemic has become another threat to survival.
When Sydney was admitted to hospital with COVID-19 sympto…
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