A Hospital Signs Deal for Deceased Organ Transplant

Are you on your last days on earth and you want to donate an organ when you are gone? That will be easier in the coming days after a Kenyan hospital launched a new  programme for organ harvesting from the deceased.

MP Shah Hospital has signed a memorandum of understanding  with a Spanish non-profit organisation, the Donation and Transplantation Institute (DTI), to actualise the programme.

The deal was signed on September 27 and was witnessed by Dr Toseef Din, the hospital’s CEO, and Chloe Balleste and Brian Alvarez from DTI.

In a statement, Dr Din said the programme is a “significant step in transforming Kenya’s healthcare by introducing deceased donor transplant services to give a second chance at life to patients in dire need”.

The MoU covers issues such as facilitation of training and assistance to ensure the success of the programme. It will also govern the collaboration of the involved institutions to

“to ensure the success of the transplants”

as indicated in the statement.

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