Rabat hospital performs first liver transplant from a living donor
The donor was the recipient's sister, and both women have since gone home from the Rabat hospital.
The University Hospital International Mohammed VI in Rabat carried out its first liver transplant from a living donor on October 15. The organ came from the recipient's sister, a young patient with severe acute hepatitis.
The hospital said the operation was its first of this kind. Both the donor and the recipient have since returned home.
The report does not give further details on the hospital's plans for future living-donor transplants.
Why it mattersPatients at the hospital now have a second option for a liver transplant, since a living relative can donate part of the liver.