Not nearly enough organ donors in Kenya


The Standard Health | by Standard Digital

While many may frown at organ donation and brush off any discussion on the subject, to medical practitioners, an organ transplant may be the only option to save a life ebbing away.

“We are appealing to Kenyans to support organ harvesting from their dead,” Peter Mungai of the East Africa Kidney Institute said in a symposium late last year.

Worldwide, the heart, kidneys, liver, cornea, lungs and pancreas are the most transplanted organs. Other transplants involve tissue from the skin and bones…

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