Morocco Performs First Living Donor Liver Transplant at National Oncology Institute

The transplant was performed on March 29 on a 62-year-old woman, according to a press release from the INO, specifying that the surgical intervention was carried out jointly by Moroccan specialists and those from the Hepato-Biliary Center of the Paul Brousse Hospital (Villejuif, France), reports the MAP.

As they left the operation, which lasted twelve hours, the French team congratulated Morocco on its technical platform, hailing the medical equipment available at the INO, which can enable feats in the field of health.

This cooperation is part of an original program for the transfer of expertise and empowerment in the field of liver transplantation linking the Moroccan and French hospital centers.