MUSCAT – A specialized medical team at the Royal Hospital succeeded in carrying out three organ transplants from a brain-dead donor, providing three patients with the opportunity to be treated for chronic organ failure. The first liver transplant from a brain-dead donor was performed on an adult patient suffering from chronic liver failure, and for whom there was no available donor from relatives. It was performed by an Omani surgical team specialized in liver transplantation and under the supervision of the liver transplantation team at King Fahd Specialist Hospital in Dammam.

Dr. Salah bin Muhammad al-Jabri, a consultant in liver surgery and transplantation and head of the Liver Transplantation Committee at the Royal Hospital, told the News Agency that the operation took about 8 hours and was crowned with success. He stated that among the difficulties facing this type of operation is the search for a suitable patient to transplant these organs in a very short time, and the availability of medical staff in the hospital to perform this type of operation in less than 24 hours. The other two operations involved transplantation of kidneys for two children, aged nine and ten, who had been undergoing proton dialysis for years.