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Date: 22 May 2012
Time: 16:53
Brum kidney team takes skills to Ghana
Story posted/last updated: 21 January 2011
A team of renal transplant experts led by Birmingham surgeon Andrew Ready is spending a week in Ghana helping to develop the country’s transplant expertise.
British charity Transplant Links (TLC) arranged the mission, in which surgeons and kidney specialists operated and worked with local doctors on the life saving kidney transplants.
The TLC team included doctors and operating theatre technicians from the kidney transplant unit at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham.
They travelled to Ghana to help perform kidney transplants on four adults, each of whom was suffering from kidney failure.
Mr Ready, clinical service lead for renal surgery at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, first led a transplant team to Ghana in 2008, during which they carried out the first ever kidney transplant in the country. TLC returned in 2009 and met patients who had received a new kidney during the first visit.
Mr Ready said the relationship with clinicians in the country was important: “We have been on several trips to Ghana and built a good understanding with our colleagues there. It’s always rewarding to see our former patients, and this trip’s procedures have gone well.
“We’ve done three transplants so far with another to do and we’re pleased with the way things have gone.”
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