Later that day, his kidneys were transplanted into two patients at BSMMU and the Kidney Foundation Hospital. "Doctors recommended a kidney transplant, but everyone in our family had diabetes, making them ineligible to donate a kidney." A patient lives, another dies after Bangladesh's latest cadaveric kidney transplants"They advised us to stay in contact with the hospital and registered my daughter's name. The second recipient was a 44-year-old man treated at the Kidney Foundation Hospital. The first cadaveric kidney transplant in Bangladesh was conducted in January 2023 at BSMMU, where kidneys from 20-year-old Sarah Islam, declared brain-dead, were transplanted into two women.

Source: bd News24 February 11, 2024 08:16 UTC