Muscat: A specialized medical team at the Royal Hospital successfully performed three organ transplants from a brain-dead donor, adding a new achievement to in the field of liver transplantation in the Sultanate of Oman.
The eight-hour long operation was the first liver transplant performed for a patient suffering from chronic liver failure, at a time there was no available donor from relatives.
Two operations, namely the transplantation of kidneys for two children undergoing proton dialysis for years were also performed.
Supervised by a liver transplantation team at King Fahad Specialist Hospital in Dammam, the operation was performed by an Omani surgical team specialized in liver transplantation.
In a statement, Dr. Salah bin Muhammad al-Jabri, a consultant in liver surgery and transplantation and head of the Liver Transplantation Committee at the Royal Hospital, noted that among the difficulties facing this type of operation is the search for a suitable patient to transplant these organs in a very short time, and the availability of medical staff in the hospital in less than 24 hours to perform this type of operation.
“Cooperation with the organ transplantation team at King Fahd Hospital in Dammam in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia gave the national programme for the organ transplantation a great impetus to develop the programme and enrich the experience of national cadres to perform these types of operations”, he added.
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