From its establishment until the end of last December, King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital in Riyadh performed 22,502 transplants for different eye tissues, including 17,114 cornea transplants.
This was mentioned by Dr. Abdelilah bin Abbad Al-Tuwairqi, the hospital’s executive general manager, on the occasion of the symposium that the hospital plans to hold from 23-25 this month around
"Eye Bank and Cornea Transplantation Technologies", in cooperation with the Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation and with the participation of the American Site Life Foundation for Eye Banks, and the Eye Bank, North Carolina.
He added that the symposium will discuss a number of axes, the most important of which are corneal diseases, various techniques for cultivating them, and ways to follow up on patients who have undergone the process, pointing to setting up two workshops, the first on how to establish and develop eye banks, and the second on techniques for eradication, evaluation and preservation of corneas.
Dr. Al-Tuwairqi confirmed the participation of a number of ophthalmic bank experts, including professor of anterior and corneal psoriasis diseases at British Columbia University in Canada, Dr. Paul Debord, President and CEO of SiteLife Monte Michael Trump, Clinical Services Manager, North Carolina State Bank, and from the hospital, Dr. Ashley Burns, the Chief Medical Officer, Hospital Eye Chief and Blueberry Consultant Dr. Hamad bin Saad Al-Fraikh, Consultant Frontal Advisor and Co-Chair of the Anterior Pregnancy Department, Dr. Sabah Justina, are participating.
He pointed out that "the Director General of the Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation, Dr. Faisal Shaheen, will give two lectures on organ donation in the Kingdom, and the difficulties facing this field, and the Director of Training and Continuing Education at the Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation, Dr. Abdul Qayyum Salih, will give a lecture on the role of coordination for organ donation operations.
