A 55-year-old woman from Kenya successfully underwent a living-related kidney transplant at AINU, Hitec City, after exhausting treatment options back home. Her sister donated a kidney, and doctors said the patient recovered well after surgery.
Published Date – 22 January 2026, 02:33 PM
Hyderabad: A 55-year-old woman from Kenya, Fathumo Mohamud Dubow, suffering from end-stage kidney disease, has successfully undergone a living-related kidney transplant surgery at Asian Institute of Nephrology and Urology (AINU), Hitec city.
The woman who was suffering from polycystic kidney disease and end-stage renal failure, had exhausted available treatment options in Kenya and required an urgent kidney transplant.
Accompanied by her young daughter and sister, she travelled to AINU and doctors advised a living donor kidney transplant as the most appropriate treatment option.
Her sister volunteered to donate a kidney and a transplant surgery was performed in September 2025 in a single surgical session, during which the kidney was retrieved from the donor and transplanted into the recipient.
“This transplant required careful donor selection, detailed pre-operative evaluation, and close coordination between surgical, nephrology and critical care teams,” Dr. K Kranthi Kumar, senior nephrologist, AINU Hospitals, Hitec-city, said.
The patient required 10 days of in-hospital recovery before being deemed fit for discharge, doctors added.
