First Kidney Transplant For Child in Qatar, Successful

Doha, December 31 (QNA) - a K.Kidney transplant for a child has successfully been conducted for the first time in Qatar at Hamad General Hospital of Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC). Medical and surgical teams form HMC managed the case of the child patient Alaa (10 years) and her uncle Badr Al-Din, the donor, through the process of the preparation and the surgery for both the Patient and the donor to leave the hospital 5 days after the operation. The Head of children Nephrology at Hamad Hospital, Dr. Abdullah Al-Kaabi said that the preparation for the first kidney transplant for child in the Hamad Medical Corporation took nearly six months of screening, treatment and follow-up protocols within the framework of a world standard integrated programme. The child Alaa is currently enjoying normal kidney function following the transplant, after years of suffering from kidney failure, Dr. Al-Kaabi said adding that her condition is regularly followed at the outpatient clinic. "We encourage relatives of children with renal failure on kidney donation for their children, where studies have shown that the best source of kidney is a living donor who has kinship with the patient," he added. (QNA)