Kidney Association pleads with public to think about donations
On December 19, 1963, a pioneering medical team from the old St Vincent’s Hospital on St Stephen’s Green, together with a young Dublin man, Ted Tobin, struggling with kidney failure, and a deceased donor, made medical history. It was on that landmark day, sixty years ago, that Ireland’s first organ transplant, a kidney transplant, took place.
Carol Moore, Chief Executive of the Irish Kidney Association said, “Today close to 6,000 people in Ireland are enjoying extended life made possible by organ donors. On the 60th anniversary of Ted Tobin’s transplant, we remember him along with his trailblazing transplant surgery team and donor, who can be recorded in the annals of history, for initiating this profound legacy.”
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