The Mohammed VI University Hospital, a pioneer in organ transplantation

A high-level scientific conclave was hosted by the ochre city. An opportunity for the organisers to look back on the performance, on 19 June, of a liver transplant on a ten-year-old girl from a multi-organ harvest (PMO) on brain death, the second of its kind in Morocco and in Marrakech. Indeed, the first liver transplant had taken place last February, on a ten-year-old boy, and this time, it was from a living donor. This multi-organ donation benefited, in addition to little Hasna, four other people, two corneal transplants in Marrakech and two kidney transplants, one in Rabat and the other in Fès. It is the first time in medical annals in Morocco that a deceased person has made a multi-organ donation and that a liver transplant has been performed from a cadaveric donor, affirms the director of the Mohammed VI University Hospital, Prof. Mhamed Harif. "This experience constitutes a major…