Keeping fingers and toes crossed throughout the nail-biting session, the medical world was keenly observing the rare and the most complicated kidney transplant in Qatar. A team of the most proficient and highly qualified healthcare professionals of the Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) withheld global attention for a while and finally, they came out from the operation theatre in utmost confidence to inform the world a big success story as Qatar was adding one more golden feather to its crown.
A surgery for an organ transplantation may not gain much attention in this world of medical advancements. However, this transplant was done on a person whose blood did not match with the donor. In usual cases, blood type match between the donor and recipient is a must for organ transplant. With this unprecedented surgery, HMC has become one of the very few organ transplant centres around the world that perform such a transplant.
The greatness of the deed will be more when you realise the fact that these centers represent only 5 percent of the total organ transplant centers worldwide. With this great advancement, the nation has made a big leap in healthcare and the nation’s pride was lifted to new heights yet again by its committed team; thanks to HMC for nurturing such a wonderful team, a real asset for the nation forever.
Qatar has been giving much importance to its healthcare as it invests sensibly for its advancement. Qatar’s healthcare system has become the best healthcare systems in the world under the wise leadership of Amir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani.
The success of this transplant will definitely open the door for more transplants from living donors and HMC anticipates a 20% rise in the number of kidney transplants in Qatar. About 20 organ transplant surgeries, involving living and brain-dead donors, have been performed at HMC last year.
The first kidney transplant surgery in Qatar was performed in 1986. On September 4, 2010, the national organ donation campaign was launched under the theme “Together We Plant Hope” to officially kick off the journey of HMC’s organ transplantation programme and turn HMC a hub of it. Qatar has kidney, liver, and cornea transplantation programmes.
The successful surgery has proven Qatar’s efficiency yet again and also shown the world that the nation has a fully fledged team ready in hand to face any healthcare challenge. There is no doubt that this will open a new path of opportunities for them and thus in turn, it will lift the nation’s fame to more horizons.
