We want dialysis machines but staff should be trained first

FACT BOX

• Donors can be living people or the dead.

• Currently, Kenya has no cadaver donor and people rely on relatives who are compatible.

• Doctors ensure the brain is dead but the blood is still pumping in cadaver donations before harvesting the kidney.

• A kidney from an older person cannot be given to a young person because the organ also ages.

• A man’s kidney is preferred to a woman’s for donation.

• One’s body could reject a kidney if they do not take medication.

• Those who have undergone transplant are on medication for life.