The transplant operations of the two kidney patients were success stories and both patients and their donors are recuperating and responding well to treatment at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

Jairaj Singh, 55, of Lot 888 Golden Grove, East Bank Demerara who had his surgery on Saturday and Mohamed Shariff, 56, of Number Three Village, West Coast Berbice whose surgery was done on Sunday are both patients of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), a release from the hospital said last evening.

The release said that Dr Rahul Jindal, who headed the United States based medical team which spearheaded the surgeries, stated that the recipients and their donors, Brijraj Singh and Sharmaine Carmichael are doing quite well.

Singh and Carmichael are currently in the High Dependency Unit (HDU).

Both patients are already making urine with the kidneys they received and Dr Jindal said that both surgeries were without complications.

Brijraj Singh is said to be eating and moving around while Carmichael is drinking liquids.

The donors will be discharged within the next three days while the recipients will be sent home within a week.

Dr Jindal said that they will need to return to the medical clinic twice weekly for follow-up treatment in the foreseeable future.