Successful kidney transplant operation performed in Yangon

29 January 2018
Successful kidney transplant operation performed in Yangon
Yangon's Children Hospital. Photo: Wikipedia

Myanmar has conducted the first successful kidney transplant operation on a 10-year-old girl at Yangon's Children Hospital, Xinhua reported quoting state media.
A substituted kidney for the child patient was donated by her 23-year-old brother for the operation.
The six-hour operation was jointly carried out by a team of surgeons from Myanmar and Singapore.