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Death threatens the lives of 100 patients who underwent liver transplantation from executed prisoners in China. . Riyadh - Muhammad Al-Haidar: About 100 patients who completed liver transplants in the People''s Republic of China face serious health complications that threaten their lives with death a few months after their return to the Kingdom and follow-up of their health condition in the specialized liver centers in the Kingdom''s hospitals. And come back
Saudi doctors specializing in liver diseases and transplantation, the occurrence of these complications to serious suspicion of damaging the livers transplanted to Saudi patients, all of which revolve around their purchase of livers from political prisoners who were executed, as well as poor health care and follow-up after the transplant.
The suffering of these patients these days coincided with the recent announcement by the British Transplant Society that there are many indications that the organs of thousands of executed prisoners are being removed for use in organ transplants without the consent of the persons concerned.
Dr. Abdul-Majeed Al-Abdul-Karim, a consultant and head of the liver diseases and surgery department at the King Abdulaziz Medical City in Riyadh, told the National Guard in Riyadh that the transplants that take place in China are carried out in ways that are suspicious in terms of medical ethics, and we do not know how the deceased is obtained brain, nor how to extract Liver, and there are indications that she was taken from prisoners on the way to execution !!!
Dr. Al-Abd al-Karim pointed out that the World Health Organization, the World Association of Physicians and the Society of Organ Transplantation in Western countries raised this suspicion and condemned the lack of transparency.
Dr. Abdul-Karim said, "The medical results at the Liver Center in the King Abdulaziz Medical City of the National Guard in Riyadh indicate that there are more than 65 patients who recently returned from China, of whom 7 have died so far, and no week passes without the entry of one or two of these patients due to their suffering from Very bad problems and complications.
Dr. Al-Abd al-Karim hinted that the issue has become purely commercial in China in terms of organ transplants, denying knowing the cost that the patient pays for obtaining a full liver, indicating that it takes place between the patient or his family with the centers they resort to and there are no accurate or known details about it. .
Dr. Al-Abd Al-Karim stated that five to seven years ago, a sudden increase in organ transplantation occurred in China, and they began broadcasting indirect advertisements to patients in America, Japan and the Middle East in a move aimed at attracting the largest possible number of patients in need of transplantation, because the process has become purely commercial. According to him.
Dr. Al-Abdul Karim held the Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation responsible for what happens to liver patients in the Kingdom, and said in this context that the center must have a tendency to limit the sending or travel of patients to China because the situation has become very bad, and to educate the community or those who support these patients in a charitable or charitable capacity. Through other medical committees the seriousness of the existing situation.
Dr. Abdul-Karim revealed that the health affairs of the National Guard have realized the magnitude of the problem as it is leading a big move that is to alert to what is happening in China in terms of organ transplants, and we hope that it will be presented to the Health Services Council to conduct visits to the centers and the centers that have good medical care and which deserve to send our patients to them so that At the very least we guarantee that patients find quality medical care and when they return to us they return with a successful transplant.
In a question to "Al-Riyadh" about the nature of those troubles that await patients after liver transplantation, Dr. Al-Abdul-Karim said that there are two types of troubles, the first quality that occurs immediately after the transplant, so that some return by the medical evacuation plane equipped with a respiratory system between life and death, while the other quality begins to feel After two to three months of returning to the country, the inconveniences are bacterial infections and narrowing of the bile ducts and clots in the blood vessels of the liver.
For his part, Dr. Muhammad bin Ibrahim Al-Sabeel, a consultant and head of the liver transplantation and surgery department at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center in Riyadh, confirmed that there are question marks about the type of organs that work in China, as they are taken from prisoners sentenced to death, and there are international reservations about what It occurs for ethical reasons and the circumstances of taking an organ in the prison hospital.
Dr. Al-Sabeel indicated that the Specialist Hospital is following up more than 30 patients who have undergone transplantation in China, and most of these cases died and did not complete the year after the transplant.
Dr. Al-Sabeel said that I visited some centers specialized in agriculture in China as part of a specialized medical delegation, and we found that the medical equipment inside the center treatment rooms is very poor and dealing with cases is not good.
Dr. Al-Sabeel pledged, "We can grow the liver for all needy patients inside the Kingdom, but we have problems, the most important of which is an organizational problem in the process of referring cases in hospitals. The percentage of liver obtained in the Kingdom does not exceed 15% of what is already there, and we can benefit from 70 or 80%." What is there, but not benefited from it so far, and the reason is the absence of a system forcing the transfer of brain deaths in different hospitals, and therefore there is no quick treatment of brain death.
