YANGON, Jan. 28 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar has conducted the first successful kidney transplant operation on a 10-year-old girl at Yangon's Children Hospital, the official Global New Light of Myanmar reported Sunday.

A substituted kidney for the child patient Ma Nan Yu Wei was donated by her 23-year-old brother Ko Aung Zaw Zaw for the operation.

The six-hour kidney transplant operation was jointly carried out by a team of surgeons from Myanmar and Singapore.

Such kidney transplant operations had been performed three times in Mandalay but was the first in Yangon, Dr. Su Su Dway, Yangon Children Hospital Superintendent, was quoted as saying.