First Kidney Transplant In Singapore. So it was 20 years ago. 1 doreen tan née khit siew gin who was 29 years old then received the organ from a 20 year old man who had died hours before the surgery.
The human organ transplant act hota was enacted in 1987. It is a core programme of the department of renal medicine at sgh which is a national referral centre for kidney diseases. Singapore general hospital sgh is the first and largest hospital in singapore.
Singapore has the pride to be the first in transplanting a kidney from the incompatible blood group donor.
Various super specialty hospitals are performing a kidney transplant in singapore. 2 background two patients before doreen were to have been singapore s first. The transplant was performed by a team of four surgeons and two anesthetists from the national university hospital nuh. Various super specialty hospitals are performing a kidney transplant in singapore.