Medical authorities of the governmental Hospital General de la Plaza de la Salud (HGPS) proudly announced the successful transplant of a donated kidney from a deceased child to a four-year old boy. This is the third kidney transplant to a child at the hospital, but the first time it was from a deceased child, announced Julio Amado Castaños Guzmán, president of the board of the HGPS.
The kidney was donated by the mother of the deceased 12-year old. The four-year old from La Vega needed regular dialysis while waiting for this procedure.
Dr. Castaños made the announcement to encourage more donations. He said the operation now opens the hospital’s pediatric transplant program. The cost of the operation was covered by the hospital board.
Also present at the presentation were Jiomar Figueroa, coordinator of the transplant program; Nephrology Department head José Juan Castillo, and pediatric nephrologist Mabel Almonte, as well as the mother of the child, Yakayra Oganda who told her story.
He estimates there are around 100 children that need dialysis treatments and are candidates for kidney donations to lead a normal life.
He said in the past 10 years some 256 transplants of organs have been carried out at the HGPS, including 39 of liver, one of heart, one of kidney and pancreas, another of liver and kidney, and the other of kidneys. Dr. Castaños said HGPS has the capacity to also transplant livers to children.
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Listin Diario
5 February 2018
