Racket would lure donors from Bangladesh, reports Indian Express
Slayman, 62, of Weymouth, Massachusetts, received the transplant in March in a four-hour surgery that the hospital at the time called "a major milestone in the quest to provide more readily available organs to patients."
Four years ago, Md Tobarok Hossain left for Malaysia to work as a labourer on a palm oil plantation. He consciously accepted the brutal life of a plantation worker, only because he wanted to give his family a better life.
Twenty-year-old Sara Islam’s consent to donate her organs after her death has given new life to four, two with completely damaged kidneys and two without eyesight, in the country’s first successful transplantation of organs from a brain-dead patient.
Surgeons at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University successfully transplanted kidneys from a clinically dead person to two separate patients last night..One of the surgeons said it was the first cadaveric kidney transplant performed in the country.
Rab arrested five members a gang, including its ringleader, on charge of buying and selling kidneys using social media.
Fahmida, who has been undergoing dialysis for the last two years, now desperately needs a second kidney transplant. Her mother Fatema Zohra had donated her a kidney in 2015, but it got damaged within a year.
Bangladesh is all set to begin kidney transplant from brain-dead to partially meet the demand of kidney transplant.
Scientists say they are a step closer to growing fully functioning replacement kidneys, after promising results in animals.
Racket would lure donors from Bangladesh, reports Indian Express
Slayman, 62, of Weymouth, Massachusetts, received the transplant in March in a four-hour surgery that the hospital at the time called "a major milestone in the quest to provide more readily available organs to patients."
Four years ago, Md Tobarok Hossain left for Malaysia to work as a labourer on a palm oil plantation. He consciously accepted the brutal life of a plantation worker, only because he wanted to give his family a better life.
Twenty-year-old Sara Islam’s consent to donate her organs after her death has given new life to four, two with completely damaged kidneys and two without eyesight, in the country’s first successful transplantation of organs from a brain-dead patient.
Surgeons at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University successfully transplanted kidneys from a clinically dead person to two separate patients last night..One of the surgeons said it was the first cadaveric kidney transplant performed in the country.
Rab arrested five members a gang, including its ringleader, on charge of buying and selling kidneys using social media.
Fahmida, who has been undergoing dialysis for the last two years, now desperately needs a second kidney transplant. Her mother Fatema Zohra had donated her a kidney in 2015, but it got damaged within a year.
Bangladesh is all set to begin kidney transplant from brain-dead to partially meet the demand of kidney transplant.
Scientists say they are a step closer to growing fully functioning replacement kidneys, after promising results in animals.
