Transplants In Malaysia

In the STAR newspaper last week, I read about the transplant scene as updated by the National Transplant Resource Centre in Malaysia. Although not totally related to stem cell transplants (although you'll see why chronologically), some of the statistics are quite interesting and I thought it would be good to record them in this blog entry (for posterity!)

1st organ transplant that took place at KLGH (Hospital Kuala Lumpur) on the 15th of December 1975 was a renal transplant.
To date, there have been 1,005 renal transplants in the country.

1st Heart transplant was performed at Institut Jantung Malaysia (IJN) on 18th December 1997.
15 Heart transplants have been done to date.

1st Liver transplant was performed at Subang Jaya Medical Center in 1995 and subsequently at Selayang Hospital.
To date approximately 50 liver transplants have been performed (mostly living donors to related children).

1st Corneal transplant was performed in Malaysia in late 1960's.
A total of 1,231 have been reported to date.

1st Bone marrow transplant was performed in University Hospital (UMMC) for children in 1987 and later for adults. HKL started their ward in 1994 and followed subsequently by HUKM and SJMC.
Up until 2003, a total of 634 bone marrow transplants were performed, of which 372 were for children and 262 were for adults.


Since 2003, StemLife has enabled 2 cord blood stem cell transplants from parents who would not otherwise have banked their baby's cord blood stem cells.

We're looking forward to assisting more families in the future for their stem cell treatments- its the reason we started StemLife.