The donation by families of brain dead people in Makkah Al-Mukarramah saved the lives of 7 patients with organic failure, after they used their organs to transplant four kidneys, a heart transplant for another, and two corneas for two other patients. The Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation, represented by the regional office team in Jeddah, succeeded last week in obtaining the approval of relatives of brain-dead patients at Al-Noor Specialized Hospital in Makkah, and their organs were transported by the medical evacuation plane. The Director General of the Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation, Dr. Faisal Shaheen, directed his thanks and appreciation to His Royal Highness Prince Muhammad bin Nayef bin Abdulaziz, Minister of Interior and to His Excellency the Minister of Health in charge, Eng. Adel Fakih, as well as to the Air Medical Evacuation Department for their distinguished efforts in making the organ transplantation program in the Kingdom. Dr. Shaheen praised the great and distinguished efforts made by the Director of Al-Noor Specialist Hospital, Dr. Muhammad Bafraj, and Dr. Qassem Al-Khatib, Head of Intensive Care, Dr. Mutlaq Al-Thubaiti, Consultant Anesthesia, and Dr. Mamdouh Kolkataoui, Head of the Department of Neurology, and Dr. Hussein Al-Zahrani, Medical Director and Head of Operations, Dr. Jamal Bayoumi, the nate director, in order to combine their efforts and make the process of brain removal and transfer of organs of the deceased succeeded at Al-Noor Hospital in Makkah .. He called upon God Almighty to have mercy on the deceased. For her part, Dr. Amal Samdahi, Director of the Regional Office in Jeddah, explained that, thanks to God, (4) kidney transplants, a heart transplant, in addition to two corneal transplants were all successful, thank God.
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