Philippine DOH Exempts 8 Israeli for Kidney transpants

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DOH Clarifies Exemption of 8 Foreigners for Kidney Transplant
Press Release/23 May 2008

The Department of Health (DOH) today clarified that the Philippine Board of Organ Donation and transplantation (PBODT) exempted the eight foreigners to undergo kidney transplant in the Philippines because of humanitarian considerations that they registered and were already on the waiting list of the national organ transplantation program even before the ban on foreign transplants was announced on April 29 following the directive of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.

The PBODT upheld the recommendation of the National


http://www.doh.gov.ph/press/20080523

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This is news from earlier this year - already posted http://ihatedialysis.com/forum/index.php?topic=8413.0