While the novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc on all institutions across the world, the need for transplants didn’t stop for those waiting on a life-saving organ to become available.
“There’s a certain amount of time it takes for different organs to be placed,” said Jim Gleason, national president of Transplant Recipients International Organization (TRIO). “And while it’s been, certainly, a challenge this past year, with commercial flights not moving as much as usual, the organ procurement organizations like our local here in Philadelphia–the Gift of Life Donor Program, for example, which covers Delaware also–was very creative in coming up with ways to transport those organs in lieu of the availability of flights. And as a result, the transplant centers have been getting a lot of offers and doing transplants that are…urgent.”
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