Mulago conducts first kidney transplant

By Daily Monitor

A team of medical experts from Uganda and India performed a kidney transplant at Mulago Hospital on Wednesday, the first in the country, sources have revealed.

The surgery to place a healthy kidney from a donor into a 24-year-old male whose kidneys no longer functioned, was done at the newly established organ transplant unit at the national re- ferral hospital. Sources familiar with the four-hour operation said it was deemed a success and both patients were stable after the operations. Read more

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