KUWAIT: The Kuwait Ministry of Health (MoH) said that the kidney transplant program at the Hamed Al Essa Center for Organ Transplantation has recorded a high number of cases. The center conducted 140 kidney transplants during the year 2023. The director of the Center, the official spokesman of the Ministry, Dr Abdullah Al-Sanad, said in a press statement that among these cases, new operations are being performed for the first time in Kuwait; the most prominent was the case of a pancreas transplant with kidneys.

He added that the center also performed other serious operations, including a pancreas transplant after a kidney transplant, a kidney transplant with urinary tract restoration, the formation of a new bladder from the intestine, and ureter transplantation, in addition to five cases of nephrectomy and new kidney transplantation. He stressed that all the previous cases were successful, expressing thanks to the teams working at the center. He also appreciated the role and efforts of the Kuwaiti society for organ transplantation.

In another development, the Ministry of Health announced on Thursday the completion of the new buildings as part of the Adan Hospital expansion project. The building consists of nine buildings. The director of the Health Communication Center and the official spokesman of the Ministry, Dr Abdullah Al-Sanad, said in a press statement that the delivery of buildings will be at different stages according to a schedule.

Al-Sanad explained that the building project includes the maternity, which contains 637 beds; the general and specialized surgery building; the physiotherapy and rehabilitation building; the building for physical therapy; as well as the health zone administration building and its parking lot. He added that the project will also include a building intended for the strategic storage of medicines with an area of about 12,000 square meters, the engineering affairs building, power generators, the medical gases building, and another separate parking lot. — KUNA