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University of Mississippi Medical Center: Chain Reaction - Living Donors Speed Up Transplant Process
March 02, 2021
JACKSON, Mississippi, March 2 -- The University of Mississippi Medical Center issued the following news:

If you're living with kidney failure in Mississippi and need a transplant, chances are you'll wait an average five years or more for a life-saving organ.

But if you have a living donor, that wait time can be cut to mere weeks or months. And, the donor doesn't even have to be a match.

That happened for Hugh Smith, a Louisiana resident who r . . .

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