Living Donor Kidney Transplant
Living donor kidney transplant is done in two medical centers located
in the Philippines. These centers operate in full compliance with the Philippine Ministry of Health and meet all international
standards applicable worldwide for transplant centers.
Our major advantage is that we specialize only in legal, living donor kidney
transplants.
Living donor kidney transplants are recognized as being of higher quality since they provide the best possible
match between donor and patient.
This maximum matching significantly increases the lifespan of the kidney, eases its acceptance
and acclimation into the body, reduces from the beginning the dose of anti-rejection medicine, and, therefore, prevents most
of the side effects of these medicines.
Our medical centers and operating and treatment rooms are equipped with
the most advanced Western equipment in the world.
Each medical center carries out approximately 250 Kidney ,BMT ,Liver and other transplants
each year with the success rate for these transplants being extremely high.
The frequency of transplants have given us
great expertise and among the highest technological ability in the world. These skills have significantly shortened
the duration of the transplant surgery to approximately three hours at this time.
Within our medical centers, we operate cardiac and liver unit departments as
well as other medical departments that are all of the highest quality and provide additional medical support to patients coming
for transplants and suffering from heart and other problems. Medical school afiliation, and Surgical rotations assure
the future.
The living donor kidney transplant project is sponsored by the government.
The Philippine Ministry of Health operates a medical tourism project. Under its sponsorship and supervision, legal
organizations in our health centers operate, providing each medical center with living kidney donors for Philippine citizens
as well as a quota of living Philippine donors for foreign patients.
Under the supervision of the Ministry of Health, the organization for finding donors, and the
medical center, each potential Philippine donor goes through a long series of medical, psychological, and social tests after
which an independent board determines the fitness of the donor to donate a kidney.
Once the donor has been found healthy
and fit to donate a kidney, the donor's data is entered in a donor database until a patient with the appropriate characteristics
and needs a transplant is found.
After the transplant is carried out, the Philippine donor is compensated directly
by the Ministry of Health. In exchange for his/her donation, the donor will receive medical insurance and additional
government support for the donor and his/her family.
It is important to note that our all of activities are carried
out according to the letter of the law and in strict accordance with all Philippine laws.
The transplants in the medical centers are carried out on a regular basis by the same team of
experienced, senior experts as well as by a permanent team of nephrectomy doctors and nurses, a trained crew that has already
carried out hundreds of successful transplants.
The Transplant Team makes every effort to ensure that only appropriate patients with
highest chance of success will eventually get a transplant.
In order to shorten the acceptance process for transplants, read carefully about the Acceptance
Process for Living Donor Kidney Transplant.
