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Jordanian Minister of Health, Abdul Latif Wreikat, announced yesterday that an organ transplant unit will be built at Al Bashir Public Hospital in Amman. He told The Jordan Times “The unit will serve all patients in need of organ transplants including hearts, kidneys and even cochlear implants,”. Also he revealed that all specialists will be [...]
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Qatar has seen an increased number of renal transplants amounting up to the number of procedures done in 2008 and 2009 taken together over the last three months. Dr Riadh Fadhil, Senior Consultant at the Department of Surgery/Urology, HMC, said “This year we have witnessed an unprecedented increase in kidney transplants. In 2008 only three procedures [...] Health Minister Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeeah announced Monday that applications for setting up new dialysis units in private hospitals should go through a high committee appointed by the minister before they get formal approval for license from his ministry. There are more than 3,000 dialysis machines in 177 dialysis units, including 30 in private health clinics and [...] Tawam Hospital, in affiliation with Johns Hopkins Medicine, has appointed Dr. Ali Ghellai Jr. as Chief of the General Surgery Division and Dr. Zuhair Shihab as Chief of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), in the Department of Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Ghellai, who is also Acting Chairman of the Department of Surgery, holds a diploma [...] Live kidney donation, the most recommended form of donations is regrettably less in the Arab world according to an expert. Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), recently, invited Dr Ahmed Adel, Professor of Medicine and Nephrology at Zagazig University and Secretary of the Arab Society of Nephrology, to lecture on the long-term health consequences of kidney ailments [...] The first successful positive cross match (PXM)-desensitization living donor kidney transplantation was performed lately at Sheikh Khalifa Medical city (SKMC), managed by Cleveland Clinic, a SEHA healthsystem facility. Since the Multi-organ Transplantation program at SKMC commenced in February 2008, 21 kidney transplants have been performed. The 50 year old patient, Abdul Ameer (Quality Surveyor), suffered from [...] A committee for the development of organ transplantation in the Kingdom was formed on Wedneday by the Health Ministry under the direction of the minister, Dr. Abdullah Al Rabeeah. Announcing the formation of the new committee, Deputy Health Minister, Yacoub Al Mazrou, secretary general of the Medical Services Council told Arab News that the new body [...] The People’s Assembly’s health committee has agreed to unrestricted organ donations, Al-Dostour reported Friday. A draft law on organ donations is currently before the People’s Assembly. The way in which potential organ donors signal their consent to have their organs removed will be left to the draft law’s implementing statute, Al-Dostour reports. The majority of committee [...] |
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