After you visit a transplant centre, the health care team will check whether your child is healthy enough for the kidney transplant surgery through blood tests, X-rays and other tests. Once the transplant teams come to the conclusion that your child can receive the transplant, the next step is to find a kidney. A family member or a close relative with the compatible blood type can donate the kidney.
In case a living donor isn’t available, the child’s name is put on a waiting list until a kidney from a deceased donor matches your child. This can take a long time as the need for kidneys is far more than the number of kidneys donated. Until then, you will have to stay in touch with the transplant team and the doctors.