BISHKEK: Kyrgyzstan’s President Sadyr Japarov has ordered free kidney transplants for all needy nationals receiving hemodialysis. This was announced by the country’s Health Minister Alymkadyr Beishenaliev.
The minister said that a lot of work has been done since 2020 and now patients with chronic renal failure receive hemodialysis at the expense of the budget. There are 2,685 such patients across the central Asian country, the minister maintained.
He added that Kyrgyz health specialists are now being trained in organ transplantation in Turkey. He added that a large group of specialists and health experts will arrive from Turkey in February. He hoped that liver transplants would also be performed after that in the country.
The first free kidney transplant was performed on February 1st in the Transplantology Department of the National Center for Maternal and Child Welfare, the local media reported.
