The COVID-19 pandemic continues to be a persistent health concern. As of this writing, the Department of Health has tallied a total of 1,138,187 confirmed cases and 19,051 deaths resulting from COVID-19 infection in the Philippines.
In June 2020, our societies have recommended the gradual resumption of kidney transplantation in the midst of the ongoing pandemic. Since then, different institutions had been able to demonstrate that after adhering to a strict preoperative preparation and evaluation, patients may complete a successful and uncomplicated kidney transplantation.
Last March 2021, we updated our guidelines to expand our criteria for transplantation during the COVID pandemic. We also added a section on COVID-19 vaccination of transplant candidates and recipients. We are updating this section to include the most recent evidence on the use of COVID-19 vaccines for these group of patients.
We are updating these unified transplant guidelines while consistently affirming the constant need to balance our patients’ requirements for transplantation against the current health crisis. As transplant professionals, we maintain our objective to provide excellent service in organ transplantation, while minimizing coronavirus transmission and cross-infection among donors and recipients, and all transplant physicians and related allied health professionals.
THE SEAL
The Society shall have its own seal which consists of two (2) concentric circles. Between the inner and outer circles are the words “Philippine Society of Nephrology, Inc. 1971”. Both the circles and the words are in green color. Inside the inner circle is a facsimile of the nephron’s renal corpuscle in red color on a yellow background.
