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The Director General of the Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation, Dr. Faisal Abdul Rahim Shaheen, revealed to “Okaz” that the center seeks to increase the number of donations from five cases per million inhabitants to fifteen cases per million inhabitants, pointing out that when they reach this rate, optimal ways of stimulation can be found. Donation is encouraged.
Finally, he stated at the conclusion of the first international symposium on organ transplantation obstacles that it focused on the importance of training a number of coordinators to donate organs within the intensive care departments in district hospitals in cooperation with regional offices and the main center at the national level such as the Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation.
He explained that the availability of material and human capabilities in the process of organ donation is the reason for the success of the Spanish experiment, which achieved first place in the world, indicating that the experience can be repeated in the Kingdom by providing these capabilities, pointing out that in the symposium an agreement was made on incentives for donors and their families, stressing the observance of quality In organ donation, while following global standards.
He stated that the symposium, in the presence of 175 doctors and nurses, discussed how to diagnose death by cerebral criteria, how to report deaths in intensive care departments, how to evaluate cases for organ donation and communicate with relatives of the deceased for the purpose of donation.
The symposium organized by the center under the auspices of the Prince Fahd bin Salman Association for the Care of Patients with Kidney Failure (both of us) in Riyadh recommended the opening of regional offices that oversee the work of coordinators to donate organs within hospitals, and provide material and moral support for the organ transplant program.
