Transplant Vaccination

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.

Updates on Transplant Vaccination