The Department of Health says numbers are too small to provide pre and post-transplant services.
Paddy McNamara underwent a successful double lung transplant in England and has to return for post-transplant servicesTransplant patients have called for wider post-operation services to be set up in Northern Ireland.
"The consultant here told me that if I hadn't have had the transplant my mortality would have been a week," he said.Mr McNamara is now recovering at Freeman Hospital in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and hopes to return home within the next few weeks. However, Mr McNamara said he will still have to fly back to Newcastle once a week for follow-up checks."It would be very advantageous if there was some form of collaboration whereby, they would have a clinic in Northern Ireland, even if it was done via Zoom," he said.Dr Nazia Chaudhuri a respiratory consultant at Altnagelvin Hospital in Londonderry and a senior clinical lecturer at the University of Ulster, believes a post-transplant service in Northern Ireland is achievable.
The Department of Health said while it was unable to provide post-transplant services for everyone, patients can be discharged back to an NI clinician when appropriate for any ongoing care.The first respite home on the island of Ireland for people with pulmonary fibrosis has recently opened in Ballycastle.
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