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kidney had a tumour and that surgery was essential for his survival.
A regular kidney transplant was not an option for the father of one from Al Ain, who would have had to wait around three years and receive strong medication before eventually being eligible
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Dr Hassen and the team truly saved my life and I owe them the world for that
Ali Al Shamsi, patient
Instead, a
team of doctors at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi decided to perform what is known as a renal bench reconstruction, which first involved the removal of Mr Al Shamsi s kidney.
Once outside the body, the kidney was placed in a slush solution – an iced saline mixture of solids and liquid – to keep it cool, while a surgical oncologist and microsurgeon worked together to carefully dissect and remove the tumour.
Cuba’s self-reliance is born of necessity.
Relatively poor, especially after a year in which its tourist industry has been battered by the pandemic, and heavily isolated by US sanctions, the country would have struggled to secure supplies of the Pfizer and Moderna coronavirus vaccines in particular.
Rather than join Covax Cuba has used its decades-long expertise in biotechnology to develop and produce its own
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By the end of this year, there’s no doubt the population [of Cuba] will be vaccinated – the first in Latin America and the Caribbean
Dr Helen Yaffe, University of Glasgow
“It’s partly or largely the result of a strategic development policy to invest in science and technology for social development,” said