It is a surgery that has saved countless lives over the world for people whose kidneys have stopped functioning. Now kidney transplants will be available to patients right here in Belize, with the first ever life-saving procedure to be performed at the national referral hospital, the Karl Heusner Memorial. News Five’s Marion Ali sat down with the urological surgeon, Dr. Byron Simmons, who wants to start a viable, sustainable kidney transplant program at the hospital.



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