« on: July 30, 2021, 03:45:03 PM »
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 exchangeTransplant surgery first under a new collaboration on health initiativesNick WebsterJul 29, 2021A 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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Unrelated directed kidney donor in 2003, recipient and I both well.
620 time blood and platelet donor since 1976 and still giving!
Elected to the OPTN/UNOS Boards of Directors & Executive, Kidney Transplantation, and Ad Hoc Public Solicitation of Organ Donors Committees, 2005-2011
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