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A PATIENT on dialysis could travel to Mars and back - twice - in the time it takes to get a new kidney.
The average waiting time for a transplant is 1000 days, about the time it would take to make two trips to Earth's second closest planet, which is around 140 million miles away.
Some 700 people in Glasgow are on dialysis and in desperate need of a new kidney and one person dies every day waiting.
Kidney Research UK is highlighting the shortage of donors and urging people to sign up to the register as National Transplant Week gets under way today.
http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/campa...call-for-organ-donor-reforms-170080n.24676783
The average waiting time for a transplant is 1000 days, about the time it would take to make two trips to Earth's second closest planet, which is around 140 million miles away.
Some 700 people in Glasgow are on dialysis and in desperate need of a new kidney and one person dies every day waiting.
Kidney Research UK is highlighting the shortage of donors and urging people to sign up to the register as National Transplant Week gets under way today.
http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/campa...call-for-organ-donor-reforms-170080n.24676783
