The Health Minister in Uganda, Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng has confirmed that Uganda has launched the Kidney Transplant Program following a maiden kidney transplant at Mulago National Referral Hospital by Ugandan doctors and visiting doctors from Yashoda Hospital India.
Today’s launch also follows yesterday’s meeting between President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni with a group of surgeons who performed this first ever kidney transplant in Uganda on Wednesday, 19th December 2023.
The group that paid a courtesy call on President Museveni at State House, Entebbe was led by the Minister of Health, Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng.
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The Minister informed the President about the historic first ever organ transplant to the patient-24-year-old Kiyemba Mark Maurice of Munyonyo, Kampala who received the kidney that was donated by his brother Steven Mpagi.
The four hours operation was performed by surgeons led by Professor Frank Asiimwe in collaboration with the visiting doctors from Yashoda Hospitals in India led by Dr. A. Sashi Kiran.
President Museveni congratulated Mulago surgeons as well as doctors from India for the successful operation.
He also pledged to support them to achieve their desired goals of self-sustainability in both human resource and the required equipment.
Dr. Aceng thanked President Museveni for his unwavering support to the Ministry of Health but requested for additional assistance in the areas of training more kidney specialists and transplant surgeons as well as the provision of modern equipment.
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