Moroccan Doctors Perform Groundbreaking Stem Cell Transplant for Immune Deficiency Patient

This operation, which was previously unachievable in the kingdom, was successfully carried out by the specialists of the Pediatric Hematology and Oncology Department of the Children’s Hospital of the Ibn Sina University Hospital in Rabat, in a patient with immune deficiency, according to a press release from the Ministry of Health.

The absence of a registry of hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) donors has meant that to date, HSC transplantation can only be done for patients with a genetically compatible donor, who is most often a sibling, the ministry explains.

This type of allograft, considered heavy in procedural terms but giving hope to patients, is done from a partially compatible family donor, in this case the mother, it is specified.

It should be recalled that this operation was initiated in 2018 on a patient with immune deficiency and then stopped for several reasons, including the cumbersome legal procedures and the unavailability of certain essential medicines in Morocco.