Uganda, March 18 -- Liver transplant surgeons say they have started preparations to conduct the first liver transplant in Uganda around the end of this year, months after a successful kidney transplant at Mulago Hospital.

Dr Olivia Kituuka, a liver transplant expert at Mulago Hospital, told this publication in an interview last Friday that there are three liver transplant specialists in Uganda. She said they intend to have this liver transplant done in Lubaga Hospital because they have established the transplant unit.

"Towards the end of this year, we hope to have the first liver transplant. The liver transplant is for people who have problems with liver failure. Someone can have liver failure because they have cancer of the liver but i...