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https://www.thenationalnews.com/uae/2021/07/29/israeli-hospital-flies-in-kidney-for-first-uae-transplant-exchange/ (https://www.thenationalnews.com/uae/2021/07/29/israeli-hospital-flies-in-kidney-for-first-uae-transplant-exchange/)
Israeli hospital flies in kidney for first UAE transplant exchange
Transplant surgery first under a new collaboration on health initiatives
Nick Webster (https://www.thenationalnews.com/topics/Author/nick-webster)
Jul 29, 2021
A kidney donated from an Israeli woman was flown on a charter flight from Tel Aviv to Abu Dhabi on Wednesday in the first organ transplant exchange of its kind.
Surgeons removed the kidney from Shani Markowitz Manshar, 39, at the Sheba Medical Centre, Tel HaShomer, before loading it into a chilled box packed in ice for the three-and-a-half-hour flight to Abu Dhabi.
As part of the same donation programme, a patient at Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, will receive a transplant from a donor in the UAE.
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