Kazakhstan Conducts Organ Transplants from Deceased Donors

In Kazakhstan, four patients on the national organ transplant waiting list received life-saving donor organs through posthumous donation.

A 58-year-old man from Almaty was declared brain-dead, and with his family’s consent, doctors harvested multiple organs: heart, liver, and two kidneys, The Caspian Post reports via the Kazakh Health Ministry.

The transplants were successful: the heart went to a 58-year-old-patient, the right kidney to a 19-year-old recipient, the left kidney to a 35-year-old patient, and the liver to a 58-year-old patient.

Currently, 4,521 patients, including 106 children, are on Kazakhstan’s organ transplant waiting list. Since the start of the year, only 14 posthumous donor procedures have been carried out nationwide, resulting in 60 vital organ transplants.