So unfortunate, a patient missed a kidney transplant she have waited for, for 4 years because there was no free bed in the hospital

Organ had died by the time another bed became available after 12 hours of tests

A KIDNEY patient missed out on a life-changing transplant after a hospital ran out of beds.

Gina Ravens, 62, was on dialysis and had waited four and a half years for a match after suffering double kidney failure.

Gina Ravens had waited four and a half years for a kidney match

She was woken in the night and taken to Churchill Hospital in Headington, Oxford, for a transplant.
But her operation was cancelled minutes before it was due to take place — after 12 hours of tests — because someone took the last bed.
The organ had died by the time another bed became available.

A spokesman for Oxford University Hospitals said the episode was ‘unfortunate’

Gina from Oxford, said: “There are a lot of donated organs available now but if they are closing beds in hospitals, there is no point.”

She has since received another kidney. A spokesman for Oxford University Hospitals called it “unfortunate”.