Kellie Clark's hopes of a long-awaited kidney transplant were shattered when Memorial Herman deactivated their liver and kidney transplant programs, leaving her and others devastated and uncertain about their future.
Kellie Clark was just weeks away from getting a long-awaited kidney transplant when Memorial Herman made a shocking announcement. "So close. Like insanely close. It was like a bad joke. I didn't believe it," she said.PREVIOUS COVERAGE: Memorial Hermann's Texas Medical Center liver transplant program inactivatedShe didn't get a call or an email. She saw an article online saying that Memorial Hermann inactivated their liver and kidney transplant programs.
FOX 26 Houston is now on the FOX LOCAL app available through Apple TV, Amazon FireTV, Roku, Google Android TV, and Vizio!"It's a little scary, like what if I had gone through their program, something was going on, and I was affected by that," said Clark. FOX 26 reached out to Memorial Herman with several questions around these "irregularities," how many patients are affected, and what might happen to the patients who are on the waitlist. They have yet to respond.
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