DOHA: Hamad General Hospital (HGH) successfully performed a kidney transplant surgery in collaboration with Sidra Medicine, from a brain-deceased child to a 48-year-old adult patient.
This collaboration is considered the first of its kind between the two parties in the field of organ transplantation, as confirmed by the Medical Director of Hamad General Hospital and the Head of the Kidney Transplant Section at HMC, Dr Yousuf Al Maslamani. This is part of the efforts to enhance and develop the organ transplantation programme in the state of Qatar.
Dr Al Maslamani stated that this operation is a result of the collaboration agreement recently signed between Hamad Medical Corporation and Sidra Medicine. This agreement includes Hamad General Hospital benefiting from organs donated at Sidra Medicine, particularly for urgent cases of patients in need of organ transplantation.
In turn, the Nephrology Division Chief at Sidra Medicine Dr Abu Bakr Imam, explained that the family of the brain-deceased child offered to donate their child's organs immediately upon learning of the tragic news of his brain death. Consequently, a medical team from HGH promptly travelled to Sidra Medicine to assess kidney and other organ functions.
Dr Imam noted that the collaboration between the two institutions in the field of organ transplantation has been ongoing since the opening of Sidra Medicine in 2018. The hospital's nephrology service is a unified and coordinated program aimed at advancing the field of organ transplantation in Qatar.
He also pointed out that the operation that was performed was the first of its kind in which organs are transferred from Sidra Medicine to a patient at Hamad General Hospital. Previous operations have been conducted, but the deceased organ donor was from Hamad Medical Corporation, while the kidney recipient was from Sidra Medicine.