Israel, UAE to swap kidneys in historic life-saving operation
The kidney from Israel will be brought to Abu Dhabi via a private plane, which will promptly fly back to Israel with another kidney in tow for a separate patient.
Sheba Medical Center campus, (photo credit: Courtesy)
Israelis and Emiratis are swapping kidneys, as a woman in Israel is set to undergo surgery to donate her kidney to a patient in the UAE, while an Emirati will donate a kidney to an Israeli patient, the English daily Khaleej Times reported.
The
complex operation will ensure 39-year-old Shani Markowitz will have her
kidney safely removed at Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, where it
will be sent to Abu Dhabi via private plane and be donated to a hospital
where a patient is awaiting a transplant. But the plane will promptly
fly back to Israel with another kidney aboard, this time from the UAE
and it will quickly be delivered to a patient at Israel’s Haifa Rambam Health
Care Campus.
This
incredible live-saving mission heralds another new milestone in the
ever-growing ties between Israel and the UAE and is part of the Abraham Accords’ organ donation program.
Note that the swaps & successful operations took place on July 29, 2021
Three families - two Israeli & one Arab, exchange kidneys, 29 Jul 2021
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