Hamad General Hospital (HGH) successfully performed a kidney transplant surgery in collaboration with Sidra Medicine, from a brain-dead child to a 48-year-old adult patient.
This collaboration is considered the first-of-its-kind between the two parties in organ transplantation, as confirmed by Medical Director of HGH and 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 Qatar.
Dr al-Maslamani said that this operation is a result of the collaboration agreement recently signed between Hamad Medical Corp 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-dead 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 organ transplantation has been ongoing since the opening of Sidra Medicine in 2018. The hospitals' nephrology service is a unified and co-ordinated programme aimed at advancing the field of organ transplantation in Qatar.
He also pointed out that the operation that was performed is the first-of-its-kind in which organs are transferred from Sidra Medicine to a patient at HGH. Previous operations have been conducted, but the deceased organ donor was from HMC, while the kidney recipient was from Sidra Medicine.
Dr Abu Bakr Imam
