Moot concludes with focus on human organ transplant

LAHORE

The two-day “International Kidney Transplant Congress” concluded at Shaikh Zayed Medical Complex, Lahore, on Wednesday.

The congress was held by the Department of Urology and Kidney Transplantation, Shaikh Zayed Medical Complex, Lahore, in collaboration with Transplantation Society of Pakistan, Pakistan Association of Urological Surgeons, Pakistan Society of Nephrology and University of Health Sciences, Lahore.

This symposium, held under the patronage of Shaikh Zayed Medical Complex Chairman and Dean Prof Dr Farid Ahmad Khan and head of the Department Prof Hafiz Shahzad Ashraf, focused on the latest development in transplantation with focus on deceased donor organs in Pakistan. National and international experts participated in the event.

Punjab Social Welfare and Bait ul Maal Secretary Haroon Rafique, Zakat and Ushar Secretary Hassan Iqbal, College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan Senior Vice-President Prof Dr Khalid Masood Gondal were also present.

During the symposium, lectures were delivered by Prof Hafiz Shahzad Ashraf, Prof Lionel Rostaing, Prof Franco Citterio, religious scholars Dr Muhammad Raghib Hussain Naeemi, Prof Saeed Akhtar, Prof Dr Aizaz Mand, Prof Safder Sayal, Prof Riaz Ahmad Tasneem, Prof Ahmad Salman Waris, Prof Hafiz Ijaz Ahmed, Prof Mumtaz Ahmad, Maj-Gen Dr Arshad Mehmood, Dr Nadir Hussain, Dr Shahid Abbas, Prof Bukhsh Ali, Prof Asad Shahzad, Dr M Nasir Ibrahim, Dr Ali Shandar, Dr Fazal ur Rehman Niazi, Prof Arshad Kamal Butt, Dr Talha Mahmood, Prof Nauman Tarif, Dr Mateen Akram, Prof Shafeeq Cheema, Prof Farkhanda Hafeez and Dr Hassan. The salient features of the congress included deceased donor organ transplantation, religious aspects of organ donation, workshop on HLA tissue typing, state-of-the-art lectures of international faculty, video lectures, laparoscopic donor nephrectomy, recent advances in immunosuppression, ABO incompatible transplant in highly-sensitised patients and case presentations.

Shaikh Zayed Medical Complex Chairman Prof Dr Farid Ahmad Khan said that more than 800 successful kidney transplants had been completed in the hospital. “It is a matter of great honour for us that the Department of Kidney Transplantation Shaikh Zayed Hospital, Lahore, has become the second largest centre in public sector hospitals of Pakistan performing successful kidney transplants,” he added. Prof Dr Hafiz Shahzad Ashraf, chief organiser and head of Urology and Kidney Transplantation Department, said they had learned much about transplantation from Prof Lionel Rostaing and Prof Franco Citterio.