Kenya’s Nairobi West Hospital has successfully conducted its first bone marrow transplant procedure. On Tuesday, Chief Medical Director Professor Andrew Gachi said the female patient, aged 55, was ailing from multiple myeloma, a type of blood cancer. “This is a great milestone in the medical history of this country. We have successfully transplanted bone marrow to a patient with multiple myeloma, and we expect to discharge her in two days,” stated Prof. Gachi. “Our aim is also to be the leading Bone Marrow Transplant unit not only in East Africa but across Africa,” he added. Dr. Guarav Dixit, a doctor at the New…
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