Transplant training in Liverpool for Gaza medics

Medics from Gaza are undergoing training in Liverpool as part of the Liverpool International Transplant Initiative.

Surgeons from the Royal Liverpool Hospital want to establish a locally run transplant unit in the conflict hit Gaza strip.

Their priorities are to fund a tissue typing laboratory as well as other medical equipment, which could cost in the region of £500,000.

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A team of medics from the conflict hit Gaza strip are in Liverpool being trained by some of the country's top surgeons.

The Liverpool International Transplant Initiative aims to train medics so that one day the region will have its own transplant unit. Rachel Townsend reports.

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