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News:Chitungwiza Central Hospital To Open Sally Mugabe Kidney Transplantation Unit. First Transplant To Be Done By Year End

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The first kidney transplant at Chitungwiza Central Hospital will be done by the end of this year at the Sally Mugabe Kidney Transplantation Unit. The hospital’s chief executive officer, Dr Obadiah Moyo said in an interview with The Sunday Mail Extra that,

We don’t want to mess up our first operation so we want to be sure, so we are continually training our staff so that when we say we are having the first operation, we wouldn’t want to be found wanting. As we speak, everything is 100 percent set, the equipment is ready, the staff are ready. We can safely say by the end of the year we would have done our first transplant.

Apart from performing kidney transplants the programme will also identify and treat kidney problems early before they progress into chronic conditions that require dialysis.

Permanent secretary in the Ministry of Health and Child Care, Brigadier-General (Retired) Dr Gerald Gwinji assured the hospital of financial support in the transplantation programme,

As we move to establish this noble programme, be rest assured that the Ministry of Health and Child Care will move to ensure adequate availability of all essential resources to sustain the kidney transplantation programme, especially in the acquisition of post-operative immune-suppression medicines and any other requirements.

Chitungwiza Central Hospital has sent eight health professionals to India for expertise exchange programme ahead of the re-opening of the kidney transplant unit. Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals stopped kidney transplants in 1992 when more resources where being channeled towards fighting the HIV pandemic.

Read More: The Sunday Mail


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