A Saudi health official called for doubling the effort to confront the expected increase in cases of kidney failure patients in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The Director General of the Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation, Dr. Faisal Abdul Rahim Shaheen, said in a press interview published yesterday that there are about 6,649 patients with final kidney failure in Saudi Arabia, adding that the number of deaths due to organic renal failure reached last year 725 people, representing 11 percent of the total patients . Dr. Shaheen explained that the Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation has so far managed to perform about 3075 kidney transplants and 220 liver transplants, in addition to 87 heart transplants. Another 220 hearts were used as a source of human valves, in addition to 367 cornea transplants and 8 lung transplants. Kona