Health | First organ transplant successfully performed in Macau

Last Sunday, the Centro Hospitalar Conde de São Januário (CHCSJ) successfully conducted Macau’s first organ transplant surgery.
The organ transplant was performed between two local sisters, with the donor and the recipient being 54 and 39 years old, respectively.
The kidney transplantation was completed after three surgical operations: a nephrectomy, a renal repair surgery and the kidney transplant surgery.
All stages of the operation were directed by the organ transplantation team from CHCSJ and were instructed and assisted by experts coming from the organ transplantation center of the first affiliated hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University.
In total, 12 medical professionals including urologists, anesthesiologists, nephrologists and nurses were involved in the transplant.
The Health Bureau (SSM) claims that the procedure was successful, resulting in a good renal perfusion and good urination. The kidney is functioning well and the recipient’s body is not showing any refusing reaction against the new organ.
Both the donor and the recipient are still in hospital to recover from the surgery.
The donor can move out from CHCSJ in seven to 10 days after the operation, whereas the recipient will be required to stay in hospital for two weeks’ observation and she is also required to return to the hospital regularly.
The director of SSM, Lei Chin Ion, stated that each year, among the people who die in the city there are 10 to 20 corpses which are suitable for organ transplantation despite the fact that some of these people might not be willing to donate their organs.
Lei encouraged the public to donate their organs, and said that the authority will try to put Macau patients’ names on the mainland’s organ waiting list in order to have higher chances of finding suitable donors.