A WOMAN who needs a life-saving kidney transplant has criticised a hospital for not letting potential donors be tested.

Sharon Moor, 42, has been on the waiting list for a new kidney for three years after she was struck with the potentially deadly CMV virus in 2008.

Doctors saved her life, but the treatment left her with kidney damage.

They told Sharon, of Heath Road, Tendring, she would need a kidney from a live donor, because of the number of antibodies in her blood.

Her dad and brother were tested but were not a match.

She issued a desperate appeal through the Gazette in January and six people came forward to offer her help. Two of the people have been tested to see if they are a match, but Sharon says at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge has refused to test people she does not know.

Sharon said: “The hospital has decided donors have to know me to even be tested. They have said even if I get the test done elsewhere, they will not do the transplant.

“It is surreal to see complete strangers step forward and offer this wonderful gift.

“I was overwhelmed, and words cannot describe how grateful I was to have this glimmer of hope, but the hospital is standing in the way.”

Sharon is on dialysis and says it is difficult to remain positive.

She said: “I don’t have many good days now and I am tired and in pain a lot of the time.

“In the condition I am in, I shouldn’t be having to fight with the hospital over something that could save my life.

“Everyone I speak to is shocked that I’m having to go through this with the hospital.”

An Addenbrooke’s Hospital spokesman said it does not provide a transplant service for directed altruistic donors, but has offered to support Sharon in obtaining a second opinion at another hospital.

As the two people Sharon does know have now been tested, she has her fingers crossed one is a match.