CHICAGO (AFP) - Two women will go under the surgeon's knife to donate their kidneys to each other's husbands.
The couples met through an organization that arranges paired living donor exchanges after both wives were told they had the wrong blood type to donate their kidneys to their own husbands, the Chicago Tribune reported.
To date, 80 donor-recipient pairs have registered with the Paired Donation Consortium and 12 kidney swaps have been completed.
The operations will mean a new life for both families. The typical wait for a donated kidney in the Chicago area is about five years.
"Let's talk about what's happening here," Carl Chandler, a minister, told the Tribune. "A black woman is donating to a Hispanic man, and a Hispanic woman is donating to a black man, and there's no fear or cause for concern.
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