Hope for kidney patients as free transplant at Korle Bu starts Sept

Patients at the Renal Dialysis Unit of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital will have the opportunity to undergo kidney transplant free of charge from September 2018. 

The First Sky Group, a construction firm which is sponsoring the initiative will bring in specialists from Birmingham in the United Kingdom to perform kidney transplants for the patients. 

The initiative serves as an exit plan by the group, which has instituted a Kidney Transplant Scheme to support patients with kidney diseases to undergo weekly renal dislysis at Korle Bu. 

The Chairman of the First Sky Group, Mr. Eric Seddy Kutortse, made this known when a team from the group embarked on a familiarisation tour of the Renal Unit at Korle-Bu in Accra yesterday to assess how the scheme had impacted on patients after its establishment 18 months ago. 

Under the transplant initiative, while the group funds the transplant, the patients will have to get their donors, with the doctors determining the right donated kidney to use.


SOURCE: Graphiconline
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