Photo: chief surgeon at Hamid Al-Essa Organ Transplant Center Dr. Mustafa Al-Mousawi
KUWAIT, May 30 (KUNA) -- A Kuwaiti woman's life was saved after she was given a new liver as part of an organ exchange deal with Saudi Arabia.
The Kuwaiti, who was suffering from liver failure, was handed the functional liver of a deceased Saudi male in a transplant operation that was carried out at Saudi Arabia's King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre.
Since the start of the year, some 28 donated organs have switched sides between the two neighbouring countries as part of a Gulf Cooperation Council health deal signed in 1996, said chief surgeon at Hamid Al-Essa Organ Transplant Center Dr. Mustafa Al-Mousawi.
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