Abercrombie to sign organ transplant funding bill into law
Pacific Business News
Date: Friday, February 3, 2012, 2:50pm HST
Hawaii lawmakers on Friday passed legislation for about $1.8 million in emergency funds for kidney and liver transplants in the state.
Gov. Neil Abercrombie plans to sign House Bill 608 into law on Saturday at The Queen’s Medical Center .
The law will appropriate emergency funds, subject to private matching funds, for the transplants, as well as to support a chronic kidney disease management program.
Hawaii was left without an organ transplant center after the closure last month of Hawaii Medical Center East , which ran the state’s only organ transplant program before it stopped taking patients in December.
Queen’s, which is the state’s largest acute-care hospital, is awaiting federal approval to establish its own organ transplant facility.
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