Sheikh Mohammed pens particular letter to the boy: Hold smiling little warrior.
A 16-year-old boy has obtained a brand new lease of life as medical doctors in Dubai carried out the primary ever paediatric kidney transplant from a reside donor within the UAE.
As Khaleej Occasions reported again in June 2020, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, had stepped in to assist the teenager.
A Dubai Faculty pupil, Pritvik Sinhadc was battling long-term renal failure and his situation had worsened on Might 31 at a time when his father — his solely donor match — was stranded in Doha, Qatar, as a consequence of coronavirus journey restrictions.
Sheikh Mohammed wrote a particular letter to Pritvik, assuring him that the UAE is his house and that he would obtain the perfect care doable. “To my expensive Pritvik, it is a small gesture from me to you to remind you that you’re right here at house and that you’re in protected fingers, and I’ll pray to God to maintain you in good well being and protected … Hold smiling little warrior.”
Interview with Pritvik Sinhadc, #UAE‘s first pediatric kidney transplant affected person from a reside donor. pic.twitter.com/f8XxzLUARn
— Dubai Media Workplace (@DXBMediaOffice) January 13, 2021
The surgical procedure was carried out by a staff physicians from Al Jalila Youngsters’s Specialty Hospital (Al Jalila Youngsters’s), Mohammed Bin Rashid College of Drugs and Well being Sciences (MBRU) and Mediclinic Center East.
In June 2020, Pritvik arrived on the nephrology clinic of Al Jalila Youngsters’s. He was affected by full kidney failure. Having been born with small, partially functioning kidneys, Pritvik had reached end-stage kidney illness and required rapid renal alternative remedy, in response to his medical doctors.
Pritvik’s father, Bhaskar Sinhadc, was recognized as a profitable match, following which he was positioned by way of a full donor analysis course of.
The operation, which has saved Pritvik’s life, can also be anticipated to enhance the standard of his life within the years forward.
Teen prodigy
A gifted younger boy, Pritvik has been accepted as an official affiliated researcher at BEYOND: Heart for Basic Ideas in Science to analysis astrophysics.
He’s a printed co-author on NASA’s Primer on Astrobiology and graduated as a World Science Scholar in June 2020. Nevertheless, his medical situation was taking a heavy toll on his analysis work and his schoolwork, necessitating an pressing kidney transplant.
Interview with Bhaskar Sinhadc, Father and donor for #UAE‘s first pediatric kidney transplant affected person. pic.twitter.com/Eheiz5Cq2g
— Dubai Media Workplace (@DXBMediaOffice) January 13, 2021
Pritvik, who was named a UAE Ambassador of Organ Donation, stated: “I pledge to work in the direction of elevating consciousness on the essential want for organ donation in saving lives of sufferers like me, who would in any other case not make it with no transplant. I’ve been fortunate to have my father as my donor.
“Nevertheless, there are lots of who want transplants to outlive and I shall be working intently with MBRU and the Al Jalila Basis to make sure that there’s elevated consciousness on organ donation.”
In December 2020, Dubai Crown Prince and Chairman of The Govt Council of Dubai Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum introduced that the federal government has accredited an organ transplant programme.
The transplant
The transplant was executed by Dr Ramzi Ayache, Nephrologist at Mediclinic Metropolis Hospital; in collaboration with Dr. Farhad Janahi, Advisor Urologist & Transplant Surgeon at Mediclinic Metropolis Hospital and Assistant Professor of Surgical procedure at MBRU; and Dr. Waldo Concepcion, Head of the Al Jalila Youngsters’s Organ Transplant Centre.
Earlier than present process surgical procedure, Humaid Al Qutami, Director Basic of the Dubai Well being Authority (DHA), visited Pritvik to investigate about his situation.
“The success of Pritvik’s operation marks an essential step ahead in conducting such extremely exact operations. It additionally helps the event efforts going down in Dubai,” stated Al Qutami.
Dr. Raja Al Gurg, Vice-Chairperson of the Board of Trustees, MBRU, stated: “We’re humbled to have performed an element in permitting this spectacular younger man Pritvik to reside his life and press forward whereas having fun with high quality time together with his household and realising his full potential.”
Eradicating the monetary burden
Dr. Abdulkareem Sultan Al Olama, CEO, Al Jalila Basis, stated their A’awen programme helps alleviate the monetary burden on households “in order that they will deal with their youngster’s therapy plan and restoration”.
“Pritvik is a brilliant younger boy with a full life forward of him. We want Pritvik a speedy restoration and sit up for seeing what the long run holds for him on a private and tutorial entrance.”
Dr Abdulla Al Khayat, CEO of Al Jalila Youngsters’s Speciality Hospital, stated: “We’re pleased with this joint achievement which has given Pritvik a brand new lease of life. This pioneering surgical procedure places us one step nearer in the direction of reaching our authorities’s imaginative and prescient of accelerating entry to high quality transplant providers and placing the UAE on the forefront of organ transplant regionally and globally.”
Matthew Dronsfield, Director of Mediclinic Metropolis Hospital, added: “This marks one other essential milestone for the event of transplant providers in Dubai, which is the results of the shut collaboration by our multi-disciplinary transplant groups at MBRU, Al Jalila Youngsters’s and Mediclinic Center East. Pritvik’s father, Bhaskar Sinha, was operated on in Mediclinic Metropolis Hospital on the day of transplant and can proceed to be intently monitored by the transplant staff.”
