UAE Fatima Ali required a transplant to survive her life-threatening illnesses, which included advanced liver cirrhosis and cancer.
The citizen of Abu Dhabi was put on a waitlist and received three calls for a transplant, but due to various medical issues, the donor’s liver didn’t match each time. And just when the sixty-six-year-old expat Yemeni was about to quit up, her phone rang once again.
The Burjeel Transplant Office at Burjeel Medical City (BMC), Abu Dhabi, notified her in March about a 23-year-old man from India who had serious brain stem dysfunction following a catastrophic brain injury. It was determined that he was brain dead-..The deceased expat’s family was contacted by the National Center for Regulating Donation and Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues. And with sorrow in my heart,
She battled liver cirrhosis and liver cancer for two years before having a liver transplant at BMC, Burjeel Holdings’ flagship facility, and returning to everyday life.
At BMC, Fatima is the first patient to have a liver transplant. There is now a successful kidney transplant program at the hospital. Longtime resident Fatima is an educational adviser. She is a mother of three and an inspiration to her kids, all practicing specialty medicine in Abu Dhabi.
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