Barbados could expand access to kidney transplants if Caribbean countries deepen cooperation on organ donation and transplant services, the head of the  Barbados Kidney Association.

As the  Senate passed the Human Tissue Transplant Bill on Wednesday to create the framework for a deceased organ donation programme, BKA president Sadie-Ann Sisnett said the region already has a growing transplant capacity.

She highlighted programmes in Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Guyana, Antigua and Barbuda, and the Bahamas, which recently completed its first living donor transplant.