Accra, Nov. 11, GNA - Korle_Bu Teaching Hospital has successfully performed the first kidney transplanting in the country. The surgery was performed jointly by a team of medical doctors from Queen's Hospital in the United Kingdom and Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital. Three renal patients will have their kidneys transplanted within the week.
Speaking to the Ghana News Agency in an interview, Mr Mustapha Ahmed, Public Relations Officer of the Hospital, said such operations were usually replete with privacy and other complicity. He said it was revealed that each operation would have cost 30,000 GH¢ but the Ghana Kidney Foundation was assisting each patient to take the bill.
"Relatives are also contributing massively in the kidney transplanting. The first donation was done by a sister to a brother, the second by a father to a son and the third by a wife to a husband," he explained.
Kidney problems are on the increase and the four kidney centres that the country currently had are inadequate to cater for the increasing number of people suffering from kidney-related problems. He therefore appealed to other corporate organizations to support the Foundation in its efforts to establish the centre at Korle Bu.