Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation
Nine cases of organ donation from Kuwait to the Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation RIYADH - 4-14 (KUNA) - The Director General of the Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation, Dr. Faisal Abdul Rahim Shaheen, announced here today that his medical center has obtained nine Kuwaiti cases of organ donation out of 41 cases of approval for organ donation During the year 2002.
In a monthly letter to Dr. Shaheen distributed by the center here today, the center has obtained ten cases of approval for organ donation from outside Saudi Arabia, including one from the State of Qatar and the rest from the State of Kuwait within the framework of cooperation for the organ transplantation program in the countries of the Cooperation Council for the Arab Gulf States.
He explained that the number of brain deaths reported by the Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation amounted to 337 cases in 2002, and the center documented the diagnosis of brain death in 208 cases, ie a rate of 61.7 percent.
Dr. Shaheen said that the center obtained 41 approvals for organ donation, in the form of the parents ’refusal to donate the organs of their brain-deceased relatives, which accounted for 75.1 percent of the total of 177 diagnosed cases.
He revealed that 57 colleges had transplanted operations in Saudi Arabia during 2002, taking advantage of the brain dead, and conducted ten cerebral transplants, half of which were performed at King Fahd National Guard Hospital in Riyadh and the other half in King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center in Riyadh, and two whole heart transplants with 17 hearts as a source. For heart valves.
Shaheen indicated that 16 local corneas were removed for patients in Saudi Arabia, while relying heavily on the corneas that were removed from outside.
On the other hand, the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center in Riyadh has 16 liver transplants since the start of the liver transplant program two years ago, two of them from living donors.
The success rate in these surgeries reached 95%, which confirms that the Saudi Hospital achieved international record success compared to the global average of success of such operations, which is 80%.
It is noteworthy that about a thousand patients in Saudi Arabia need a liver transplant annually, at a time when the average of what is transplanted from the liver annually is only 25 cases due to the severe shortage of donation of organs of brain deceased.
The Council of Senior Scholars in Saudi Arabia decided that it is permissible to transfer a member or part of a living Muslim or dhimmi person to himself if there is a need for it, and the danger in removing it is most likely the success of its cultivation. And it permits the transfer of an organ or its part from a dead person to a Muslim if he is obliged to do so, and there is no temptation to remove it from those who were taken from him, and it is most likely that the transplant will succeed in those who are implanted in it. AM KUNA 141439 Apr 03NNNN
