Kidney Exchange coming to Spain (and liver exchange in HK)

Spain, which has the highest per-capita recovery rate of deceased donor organs in the world, is looking to expand its capacity for live donor kidney transplantation, by starting to use kidney exchange. Adn.es reports: España hará un trasplante cruzado de riñón.
"The first cross-kidney donation done in Spain will take place between two couples in June. "

HT to Flip Klijn

Update: for those who didn't click on the wonderful comment, here it is:
denisec said...
The first liver exchange in Hong Kong occurred a few weeks ago. It was described as "heaven sent" in the media: I save your hubby, you save my brother-in-law , and here it is (with a photo) in a Chinese newspaper

Further Update, June 2023: the above links didn't survive the passage of more than a decade, but you can get a little closer to the Hong Kong story at this Singapore link

I save your hubby, you save my brother-in-law [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

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I save your hubby, you save my brother-in-law Two lives saved in a donor “swop”atHong Kong hospital HEwasalreadycountingdowntohislastbreath.Mr So Wai Lun, 36, had acute liver failure, but there was no suitable organ donor inHongKong. His sister-in-law, 26, was willing to donate part of her liver, but she couldn’t as she