Know a bit about kidney transplantation

Two individuals are involved in kidney transplantation: the donor from whose body a kidney is removed and the recipient (yourself, perhaps) into whose body the kidney is transplanted.

The kidney donor may be either:

• Someone who is alive and wishes voluntarily to donate one of his or her healthy kidneys.
• Someone who has just died.
  

The kidney recipient is,

• a man or a woman of any age,
• who suffers from kidney failure that is untreatable by other means,
• who is well enough to undergo a major operation,
• and whose blood group is compatible with the blood group of the kidney donor.