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Offaly kidney transplant teenager receives second Covid vaccine
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After a year of trepidation, three kidney transplant teenagers came out of cocooning on Thursday, April 8, when they attended Beaumont Hospital for an unprecedented cause for celebration.
The former patients at Temple Street Children’s Hospital are among the first in the revised Group 4 classified to be in the ‘very high-risk’ to receive their second and final ‘shot in the arm’ of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, against COVID-19. They included 16-year-old Gearoid Wrafter from Offaly.
With the changes that were brought in last month, revised group 4 was extended from 18-69 years to include 16 and 17-year-olds. With the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine being the only one currently approved for 16 and 17-year-olds the three teens were added to the list and their vaccination will now allow them to return to school with a greater sense of confidence.
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Dublin woman who donated kidney to sister in one of six family transplants says they are lucky to have second chance at life
Emma O’Connor came to the rescue of her older sibling Louise Cowman, who had the life-saving procedure four years ago
Credit photo by Lisa Trainer -L-R: Emma O Connor her son Callum (14) and Emma s kidney recipient sister Louise Cowman and her twins Aoife and Andrew (12) with pet dog Amber (Image: Lisa Trainer)
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Irish family that needed six kidney transplants are so grateful to be been given a second chance at life Our whole family feel very lucky that so many of us have been given a second chance
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A woman who donated a kidney to her sister in one of six family transplants says they are so lucky to have been given a second chance at life.