A message from the Mater Transplant team to our lung transplant recipients:

We hope this message finds you all well. We want to acknowledge that we appreciate this is a worrying time for everybody. As your safety is paramount we are cancelling all routine appointments. However we are still here to support you. Our plan is to carry out telephone clinics. If you were due in clinic soon we will be contacting you so we can continue to support you from a transplant perspective and answer any questions you may have. If you have any transplant concerns please call the clinic on 01 803 4296 (Monday - Friday 8am-4pm) or if out of hours ring the transplant ward on 01 803 4322.

We are not always by the phone so please leave a message with a brief reason for your call and we will call you back as soon as we can.

If your call is Covid 19 specific please follow the HSE guidelines/recommendations. Contact your GP for a public health care worker to obtain a swab if you are concerned you are showing symptoms.

There are no extra guidelines that are transplant specific and we echo the HSE recommendation to self-isolate, follow strict hand hygiene and avoid contact with anyone who is unwell. Keeping yourself as healthy as possible through diet and exercise is important to maintain overall wellbeing and lung function.

As the situation is evolving on a daily basis we will be staying up to date on advice and will be in touch should current advice change.

Take care everyone.

Thinking of you all.

The Lung Transplant team