The British medical delegation performing kidney transplants headed by Dr. Abdel Kader Hammad in the Gaza Strip in partnership with the local medical teams in Al-Shifa medical complex, headed by Dr. Abdullah Al-Qishawi, announced that they finished Kidney transplantation for three patients within the twenty-fourth stage.
Dr. Abdel Kader Hammad is the clinical director and consultant transplant surgeon of the Sir Peter Medawar Transplant Unit at Britain’s Royal Liverpool University Hospital. He said, The (76) kidney transplants performed in the Gaza strip so far have a 95 percent success rate.
Dr. Al-Qishawi explained that kidney transplantation has become almost commonplace thanks to the high skill levels of the doctors in Gaza, boosted by their counterparts in the British delegation, who performed a kidney resection from the donor using the latest technology through laparoscopy.