Museveni meets Mulago Hospital surgeons after first-ever kidney transplant in Uganda

The operation was conducted at the facility last Wednesday.

The group that paid a courtesy call on President Yoweri Museveni at State House, Entebbe was led by the Minister of Health Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng.

The Minister informed the President about the historic first-ever organ transplant to a patient named Mark Maurice Kiyemba.

Maurice Kiyemba is a resident of Munyonyo, a leafy Kampala suburb and he received the Kidney that was donated by his brother Steven Mpagi.

The operation was performed by surgeons led by Professor Frank Asiimwe in collaboration with the visiting doctors from Yashoda Hospitals in India led by Dr. A. Sashi Kiran.

President Museveni congratulated Mulago surgeons as well as doctors from India for the successful operation. 

He also pledged to support them to achieve their desired goals of self-sustainability in both human resources and the required equipment.

Health Minister Dr. Aceng thanked President Museveni for his unwavering support to the Ministry of Health but requested additional assistance in the areas of training more kidney specialists and transplant surgeons as well as the provision of modern equipment.

Mulago National Specialised Hospital, also known as Mulago National Referral Hospital, is a component of Mulago Hospital Complex, the teaching facility of Makerere University College of Health Sciences. It is the largest public hospital in Uganda.

The hospital is on Mulago Hill in the northern part of the city of Kampala, immediately west of the Makerere University College of Health Sciences.