20/05/2025
First ever Kidney Transplant on 14 May, 2025
While the limelight was on a minority for the first ever Kidney Transplant that occurred on the 14th of May, 2025 at Port Moresby General Hospital (PMGH) in the Nation’s Tertiary Hospital, Papua New Guinea broadcasted by NBC National Radio on social media (facebook), Durua write and edit would like to acknowledge the team that worked collectively behind the scene to achieve this “historic medical milestone with the successful completion of its first ever kidney transplant operation at the Port Moresby General Hospital.”NBC National Radio – 90.7FM
The Kidney Foundation where Dr. Steven Bogosia is the head of the department. He and his team are responsible for the ground work from the start.
The Intensive Care Unit that consist of doctors who are responsible for making you sleep and not feel anything during an operation. These doctors are called Anaesthetics they were involved during the kidney transplant surgery (photo attached). The Intensive Care Unit nurses (photo attached) who worked tirelessly with the surgeons checking on patient treatments and laboratory results as late as 3am to 4am in the morning while everyone went off to rest.
The workers that work late till the morning in the hospital are termed as ‘on call’ group of workers.
The Pathology Department consists of doctors called Pathologists and lab workers called Medical Laboratory Scientists who are responsible for patient blood results. These results are processed in various Labs called; Haematology, Biochemistry, Histology, Microbiology and Blood bank lab in Pathology Department at PMGH. Medical Laboratory Scientists are specialised in each of these labs that report to their specialised Pathologist (doctor) that coordinates with the Pathology Coordinator (doctor) who further coordinates with the hospital Chief Executive Officer (doctor) and Director Medical Services (doctor).
Attached also, is the Nephrologist team from the United Kingdom (UK) who visited Pathology to check on the Drug Monitoring prior Kidney Transplant surgery. This UK team consists of a nurse, and two doctors. One doctor is a professor (Nephrologist). These UK kidney specialists visited PMGH during the week before the actual Kidney Transplant surgery occurred.
We can say that there was a team of surgeons present during surgery.
The external group of professionals are the Biomedical Engineers who are responsible for the installation and maintenance of Medical Equipments that these hospital specialists use for patient care. This is made possible by Meddent supplier under Brian Bell and CPL Group of companies.
“Many people both clinical and non clinical within the institution and outside the institution were involved to make this happen. The first Renal Transplant program in PNG, thank you this is unity in diversity.” Keno Temo
Foremost, to the creator of the human body God almighty who made us ‘fearfully and wonderfully’ so that it requires a team of highly specialized doctors, medical scientists, nurses, biomedical engineers and cooperate staff to work together as a team to achieve one goal at a time for the country PNG.
CONGRATULATIONS!
Picture credit: Keno Temo and Esther Ragu
Source of photos: Facebook
