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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The enactment of human organ donation and transplant law and the first-ever kidney transplant at Mulago has drawn mixed reactions. For patients waiting for a life-saving organ transplant, the new law and the commencement of kidney transplants in Uganda raise hope. However, the living organ …

Experts discuss essential factors and challenges Kampala, Uganda | PATRICIA AKANKWATSA | Uganda Cancer Institute in collaboration with Magnus Medi and Aster Healthcare has been in talks about setting up a Bone Marrow Transplant (BMT) facility at the institute to reduce the number of Ugandans who travel abroad for the procedure. …

5 steps Africa must take to improve the supply chain Kampala, Uganda | AGENCIES | Medical science has made tremendous advancements over the past 70 years. One of these is the transplant of human organs from one person to another. The first transplant – a kidney – was in the U.S …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament has passed the Uganda Human Organ Donation and Transplant Bill, 2022 setting tough penalties for dealing in human organs for commercial purposes. The Uganda Human Organ Donation and Transplant Bill, 2022 seeks to establish a legal framework for organ, cell and tissue transplant in Uganda. …

Paris, France | AFP | Since the world’s first successful organ transplant in 1954 — a kidney — the discipline has advanced to the point where a wounded soldier could have his penis and scrotum replaced in a groundbreaking operation last month. A Frenchman recently became the first person to …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Stanley the cat was on the last of his nine lives. Luckily, his owner decided to gift him a tenth, by shelling out $19,000 (Approx.Shs 70 million) for a kidney transplant. Betsy Boyd earns just $46,000 a year, working as a part-time writing professor, and …

Paris, France | AFP | A man whose body rejected a face transplant he received seven years ago has been given a second donor face after living nearly two months without one, French medical agencies said Friday. It is the first time in transplant history that doctors have replaced one …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A controversial surgeon who aims to carry out the world’s human head transplant claims to have successfully carried out the operation on a corpse in the past week. The 18-hour operation showed that it is possible to reconnect the spine, nerves and blood vessels, according …

Washington, United States | AFP | A 64-year-old man who lost most of his penis to cancer is recovering well after undergoing the United States’ first penis transplant operation, doctors said Monday. The 15-hour surgery took place earlier this month at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and is the third …