BISHKEK: The Ministry of Health of Kyrgyzstan has said that another kidney transplant surgery funded from the republican budget will be performed at the National Center for Maternal and Child Welfare, local media reported on Tuesday.
In a statement Ministry of Health of Kyrgyzstan said that the organ transplant surgery will be performed on a 34-year-old patient who has received hemodialysis due to chronic kidney disease as a consequence of chronic glomerulonephritis. It added that the donor will be the patient’s 32-year-old brother.
Kyrgyz Health Minister Alymkadyr Beishenaliev also visited them. The surgery is planned for the end of the week, local media reported. The patients’ condition is evaluated as stable. They are under the supervision of doctors and health experts from the Transplantology Department and undergo appropriate preoperative preparation procedure.
Free Kidney Transplant Surgery in Kyrgyzstan
The Ministry of Health also reminded that citizens can ask all questions about kidney transplantation on the basis of the National Center for Maternal and Child Welfare from Monday to Friday. Free kidney transplant surgery was also performed on a 21-year-old Kyrgyzstani on February 1. She and the donor have already been discharged from the hospital.
President Sadyr Japarov had ordered free kidney transplants to Kyrgyzstanis receiving hemodialysis. As per media reports, more than 2,500 citizens have received it in the country. Around 50 patients of them found a donor, underwent a complete medical examination and are preparing for a kidney transplant surgery.