The growing numbers of people who need organ transplantation and the lack of the required organs are not a problem that is not limited to a country or region in itself. It is a global problem that affects most of the world, especially with the widespread spread of what has become today called diseases of the age, including diabetes, hypertension and heart disease. Or neglected by some patients over time to require the transplantation of some organs such as kidney, liver, pancreas and others.
Dr. Faisal Abdul Rahim Shaheen, Director General of the Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation and Prince Salman Al-Khairi Center for Nephrology, said that 365 colleges are being cultured annually in the Kingdom.
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| 500 patients failed to queue annually |
He added that there are about 500 patients with renal failure annually enter the waiting lists, which reached more than seven thousand patients at the Saudi Center for organ transplantation, that is, the rate of increase in the number of patients amounted to 12%.
Revealed d. Shaheen dialysis center in King Fahd Hospital in Jeddah, where daily washing of 280-300 washing and the cost of dialysis per patient to 198 thousand riyals annually, and the dialysis machine serves seven patients in Jeddah and five in Riyadh and Jazan, which is alarming because it is supposed to The device is allocated to a number of patients ranging from 1-3 patients.
He continued d. Shaheen pointed out that the Saudi Center for organ transplantation has been able to do so far more than 1121 kidney transplantation of brain and living deaths, and studies conducted by the Center indicate that the survival rate of patients alive after kidney transplant of living relatives close to 97% after 3) Years and 90% for kidney transplantation of brain dead, and there are 13 centers for organ transplantation in the Kingdom.
And the long waiting periods in which the patient is on the waiting list for periods of up to years to get a college d. Shahin:
The length of the waiting period for the patient with renal failure to get a kidney from the center and therefore cultivation is a global problem not only in the Kingdom, but in all countries of the world, including America, and the center determines the priority of agriculture according to the health status of patients with priority to children and special medical cases, We have an urgent waiting list on which to distribute donated kidneys to different regions of the Kingdom.
And about the phenomenon of patients traveling abroad to get a college adds d. Shahin:
The phenomenon has begun to spread in recent years, but this phenomenon has many medical and economic consequences that can be avoided if the family of the patient understands the issue of kidney donation from the neighborhood relatives, where the results and success of operations abroad out of purchase by a very large, and there are 11 specialized centers for kidney transplant The centers are distributed in all regions of the Kingdom, and all these centers work in coordination with the Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation, which oversees the program in general, especially with regard to queues and access to donated kidneys and practice controls. Medical and Ethical Organ Transplantation in the Kingdom
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