Kidney donation camps

For nearly thirty years, the Alabama Kidney Foundation has been providing programs to Alabamians suffering from kidney disease; programs that genuinely make a disagreement in people’s lives.A paired exchange donation consists of two kidney donor/recipient pairs whose blood types are not compatible. The two recipients change donors so that each recipient can obtain a kidney with a harmonious blood type. Once the evaluations of all donors and recipients are completed, the two kidney infix operations are scheduled to occur simultaneously. Kidney Care Team is prefabricated up of volunteers who have received a kidney infix and poverty to provide hope and knowledge to others who are going through the infix process. Each Tuesday evening, Kidney Care Team volunteers visit pre and post infix patients. The volunteers distribute goody bags filled with educational touchable and resources for the patients. They also answer any questions and address concerns patients have.

kidney donations

kidney donation

Having a kidney transplant is often the last ditch effort to save the life of an individual whose kidneys have failed and no longer process waste products in the body. Statistics reveal that a total of about 9,000 kidney transplants occur every year from cadavers and about 3,000 transplants occur from living related donors. Living unrelated donors account for 9,000 transplants per year. Sadly, there are more than 56,000 individuals waiting for kidney transplants at any given period of time.

The first successful kidney transplant was done in 1954 in both Boston and Paris. These were kidney transplants done between identical twins which don’t have problems with rejection. The biggest problem was tissue typing—finding a suitable match for the recipient and making sure that rejection is kept to a minimum. This is why many donors are relatives who are a good match or living donors who are a good tissue typing match for the recipient.