LAHORE: On Monday, the spokesman of Children Hospital informed that the two kids suffering from beta thalassemia major Bilal and Ashir, who underwent bone marrow transplant (BMT) procedure last month, succumbed to their…
A young South African man who had the world’s first successful penis transplant last December has impregnated his girlfriend, the doctor who led the surgery said on Friday. The 22-year-old man, who…
Around 300, 000 patients of liver diseases need liver transplant due to which cadaver donation has become the need of the hour as one dead person can save the lives of six…
The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the federal and provincial governments to effectively legislate over the issue of transplant of human organs. A three-member SC bench, headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad…
After performing four successful living donor liver transplants in last six weeks, Shifa International Hospital (SIH) on Saturday formally opened its liver transplant center for the people of Pakistan. Shifa’s liver transplant…
The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed all provincial governments and the Capital Administration and Development Islamabad (CADD), to issue a notification within six weeks regarding transplantation of human organs and tissues. A…
Pakistan’s first liver transplantation unit, inaugurated by the Punjab Chief Minister on Feb 25, in Shaikh Zaid Hospital (SZH), lack facilities as even a single liver transplantation could not be performed since…
College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan (CPSP) President Prof Zafarullah Chaudhry has commended Shifa International Hospital (SIH) for starting living donor liver transplant programme for the first time in Pakistan. He congratulated…
A group of Indian and Pakistani doctors have jointly performed a complicated living donour liver transplant procedure at the Sheikh Zayed Hospital for the first time in Pakistan on Saturday. The living…
Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said on Friday that a state-of-the-art organ transplant institute was being set up in Lahore for the provision of liver transplant facility to the people. Addressing the 8th…
Heart transplant in patients with advanced cardiac diseases is still a dream in Pakistan despite availability of the medical expertise, technological equipment, drugs and the requisite legislation, forcing distressed patients to go…
Living donor liver transplant was the best option for liver transplant patients in Asian countries like Pakistan and India, said HPB Surgery Global Hospital and Health City Transplant Unit Chairman Professor Dr…
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani directed the Sheikh Zayed Hospital administration to name the liver transplant institute after late Muhammad Arsalan, who donated his liver for the first-ever liver transplant in the…
Prime Minister (PM) Yousaf Raza Gilani on Saturday said the government was working on the prevention, control and treatment of hepatitis on priority basis and Rs 14 billion had been invested in…
While a ray of hope has emerged for people with liver disorders after a successful cadaveric liver transplant, they face another dilemma because of scarcity of organ donors. The concept of organ…
The Centre for Liver Disease and Organ Transplant (CLDOT) at Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) – one of the first transplant centres in Pakistan- will start functioning by August 13. A…
The Cantt judicial magistrate on Monday sent sevens people, including Dr Hanif, Nadeem, Imran, Mushtaq, Sagheer, Mubashir and Ali involved in an illegal business of human organs transplant to jail on judicial…
