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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said that Bangladesh has achieved great progress in the field of medicine. Capable of conducting complex surgeries including kidney transplants.

The Prime Minister said this during an exchange of views with the delegation of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) at Ganobhaban today. The delegation was led by BSMMU Vice-Chancellor Dr. Sharfuddin Ahmed. After the meeting, Prime Minister’s Deputy Press Secretary KM Shakhawat Moon briefed the reporters. Khabar- Basas.

Quoting the Prime Minister, he said, following the footsteps of Bangabandhu, Sheikh Hasina’s government has brought healthcare to everyone’s doorstep. Sheikh Hasina said that the government has given the highest priority to provide health care to the people.

At that time, concerned doctors, kidney transplant patients Shamima Akhter and Shabnam Sultana and mother of kidney donor Sara Islam were present.

Earlier on January 19, Professor Dr. BSMMU Hospital. A team of doctors led by Habibur Rahman Dulal successfully transplanted kidneys collected from clinically dead people into two patients. It was the first cadaveric kidney transplant in the country. They took a kidney from Sara Islam, a 20-year-old patient in the intensive care unit. He was declared clinically dead on January 18 afternoon. After Sarah’s mother consented to the operation, the kidney was harvested.

Kidney transplantation from living donors started in Bangladesh in 1982. But there were legal restrictions on taking kidneys from dead patients. The Organ Donation Act was amended in 2018, allowing organ procurement from the deceased with the consent of the next of kin.