Kenyan woman undergoes successful kidney transplant at AINU

A 55-year-old woman from Kenya, Fathumo Mohamud Dubow, suffering from end-stage kidney disease, has successfully undergone a living-related kidney transplant surgery at Asian Institute of Nephrology and Urology (AINU), Hitec city.

The woman who was suffering from polycystic kidney disease and end-stage renal failure, had exhausted available treatment options in Kenya and required an urgent kidney



transplant.

Accompanied by her young daughter and sister, she travelled to AINU and doctors advised a living donor kidney transplant as the most appropriate treatment option.

Her sister volunteered to donate a kidney and a transplant surgery was performed in September 2025 in a single surgical session, during which the kidney was retrieved from the donor and transplanted into the recipient.