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In the Philippines the emphasis is prevention of ESRD rather than the treatments for ESRD which are dialysis and transplant. The reason for this is that 99 % of the Philippine people do not have the financial means to get a transplant nor 3 times a week dialysis.
Therefor the government does not provide the effort to record statistics for transplants  but rather provides public information and programs for the prevention of kidney disease as a cause of early death in the Philippines.

METHOD:
I went to 6 differerent Transplant centers in the Philippines to get the Facts.
In total I spoke with 8 Different Transplant Surgeons to get more facts.
Statements from well known and certified Transplant Surgeons as well as well respected Hospital administrators were given freely.
  The report :

1 The heart Transplant Surgeon- did one transplant in Manila 1996. Patient survived 4 months.

2 Two Liver Transplant Surgeons-
      a) American Trained Surgeon- More than 200 transplants, both Kidney and Liver.
             Kidney-no operational deaths, zero rejections after one year.
             Liver - no operational deaths , 10% deaths after one yr (  rejection and Liver failure)
      b) Japanese Trained Surgeon- More than one hundred, almost all kidneys
             Kidney-no operational deaths, zero rejections after one year.
             Liver- one death during Surgery, two more deaths in less than three months, from acute rejection and liver failure.

4. Five kidney transplant Surgeons of which 2 trained in the US while the other 3 trained under a American Surgeon in
       the  Philippines.
     The two US trained kidney Transplant Surgeons, both had a background in General Surgery and Urology before going to the US to train as Kidney Transplant Surgeons.
        a)    One died last year at the age of 41- I used to question him at Starbucks. His patients came from Japan,   Arabian countries and Korea. No American. He had a perfect success rate with no rejections after one year, with more than 90 transplants.
        b)     The Second one has transplanted more than 140 patients without any rejections, after one year.

   5. The three Transplant Surgeons who trained under an American Transplant Surgeon.
         a) The youngest Transplant Surgeon (a)- has done 48 transplants , however one patient rejected his kidney after 3 months because he wanted to save money by taking the anti rejection medications every three days. He is now back on dialysis
         b) Kidney transplant Surgeon (b) - more than 300 successful transplants of which more than 200 were cadaver transplants. Zero Rejections after one year.
         c)  Transplant Surgeon (c) works far from Manila , in a lower density province. He has transplanted a couple of American patients.
             He uses nothing less than a 2 donor match , but one must be a DR.
             He has transplanted about 70, without any rejections , at all.
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The General parameters : No patient under 14 nor older than 70. Most but not all were  on dialysis. Donors included Cadavers, live related and live unrelated.

Future surveys will contain complete donor data before and after one year as well as more parameters for the recipient, % of antigen match, any induction therapy used and the different medications used to prevent long term rejection..

Most searches for matched donor took less than two weeks 

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