Muscat: The Ministry of Health, in cooperation with the Omani Association for Organ Transplantation, has launched the National Organ Donation Campaign with the aim of educating community members on the importance of organ donation, coinciding with the Omani Organ Donation Day, which is observed on December 19.
The Director of the National Program for Organ Transplantation and President of the Omani Association for Organ Transplantation said that the number of donors who registered to donate organs after death is 7,092. Most of these people registered in the mobile application for organ transplantation, 'You Give Life 8', which was launched in March this year.
The Grand Mufti of the Sultanate of Oman has referred to organ donation as a humanitarian act.
Organ transplantation is the new hope for millions of patients around the world and the Omani National Centre for Organ Transplantation will contribute to developing the National Transplantation Program.
People 18 years old and above are potential donors if they are physically healthy and psychologically stable. When a person is brain dead, specialists evaluate them for donor suitability.
Organs and tissues that can be transplanted include the liver, kidney, pancreas, heart, and lung, as well as corneas, skin, bone marrow, heart valves, and connective tissue.
Dr. Ahmed bin Saeed al Busaidi, Director of the National Program for Organ Transplantation and President of the Omani Association for Organ Transplantation, said that the number of patients with organic failure is large in the Sultanate of Oman, and these numbers - unfortunately - are increasing. Patients, who are part of our society, and their relatives suffer greatly due to organic degeneration, and most of them have become dependent on devices.
There are a very large number of patients with organic failure who do not find donors for them because of chronic diseases in the family, or because of the lack of approval to expose their relatives to organ donation operations, and some organs such as the heart and lungs cannot be donated from living donors. The best solution in such cases is obtaining organs from brain-dead donors, and this does not contradict our true religious values and international laws but is considered a charity.
He also pointed out that the Sultanate of Oman was one of the first countries to start transplanting organs in the region and the first organ transplant in the Sultanate was in 1988, and the situation continued with limited operations in Sultan Qaboos University Hospital and the Royal Hospital.
The national campaign for organ donation aims to educate society about the importance of organ donation as it is a humanitarian act, a generous initiative, and the appropriate solution for treating organic failures such as kidney and liver failure, and other vital organs suffered by millions of patients worldwide. The national campaign also aims to save human lives and a service provided by the donor to end The suffering of a patient who has been in pain for many years.
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