Surgeons

Transplant (2x1)

: 22, 2008

Transplant looks at organ transplant surgery and the work of Oscar Traynor in St. Vincent's Hospital, along with Freddie Wood in the Mater Hospital. Featuring the story of 34 year old Mike Keohane from Rosscarbery in County Cork. For many years Mike has suffered with a chronic liver disease and his last and only chance of survival is a liver transplant. Surgeons follows Mike as he is told the news that he needs to go on a waiting list for transplant and when he gets the call from the Liver Unit in the week before Christmas we wait to see if the donor liver is a match. In the Mater, 63 year old Frank Donavan from Tallaght, Co. Dublin has been waiting on the lung transplant list for over 2 years now and his condition is highly critical. Frank had been called in for a transplant 4 times but each time got sent home because the lung wasn't suitable. Surgeons sees how this waiting affects his life as his situation rapidly deteriorates and waits with him on his fifth and final call to the Mater.