China-aided hospital in Sri Lanka completes 1st organ transplant
STORY: China-aided hospital in Sri Lanka completes 1st organ transplant
DATELINE: March 19, 2022
LENGTH: 0:00:52
LOCATION: Colombo
CATEGORY: HEALTH/SOCIETY
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The China-Sri Lanka Friendship National Nephrology Hospital has successfully performed a kidney transplant surgery from a living donor recently.
It's the first of its kind since the operation of the hospital in 2021.
The recipient of the transplant is a 28-year-old woman who had been suffering from kidney disease for 10 years and the kidney donator is her mother.
The mother and daughter are in stable condition after the surgery, and both the medical staff and the patient are very satisfied with the results of the operation.
The specialized nephrology hospital was built with the assistance of the Chinese government.
It has an area of 25,000 square meters, featuring 200 general inpatient beds and 100 hemodialysis beds.
Xinhua News Agency correspondent
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