Kidney transplantation has not only become possible in the modern era, but the success rates of such surgeries have also increased with time, said French Kidney Transplant Surgeon Rostaing.

He expressed these views while speaking at the first International Kidney Transplant Symposium organised by Dow University of Health Sciences Renal transplant unit on completion of its 500 kidney transplants.

Professor Lionel Rostaing said that immunosuppressive drugs can make the transplanted kidney acceptable to the recipient’s body or prevent it from being rejected.

He said that unsuitable transplants can be made suitable with the use of drugs.

On the occasion, Professor Muhammad Saeed Quraishi said, “Among those who come for kidney transplants were mostly people rejected from different hospitals.

The target of 500 transplants in such a short period of time has also been achieved quickly due to this reason”.

He said that not a single penny is taken in the name of profit from the patients, which is why Dow’s Renal Transplant Unit has become the second centre of kidney transplant in the province.

Apart from Chancellor Professor Muhammad Saeed Quraishy, Head of Renal Transplant Unit Professor Rashid Bin Hamid also spoke at the event.

While addressing the symposium, the Head of the Renal Transplant Unit Rashid bin Hamid said that the main objective of the symposium is to inform general doctors and people suffering from kidney diseases about the best treatment for kidney diseases.

Dow University Renal Transplant Professor Tasdeq Khan said that the number of kidney patients in Sindh province is increasing rapidly as dialysis centres are not under the access to people living in small towns. He said kidney centres should be established in every small and big city of the country.

A large number of nephrologists, urologists and transplant surgeons from Pakistan were present at the symposium.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 31^st, 2022.