Saudi Gazette report

QASSIM — A team from the Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation supervised four life-saving transplant operations last week, with all organs coming from a brain dead patient in King Fahd Specialist Hospital in Qassim.



The medical team met with the donor’s family to obtain their permission for his organs to be used, Al-Jazeera Arabic daily reported.



Operations to remove the donated organs and transplant them into the recipient patients’ were performed.



Two girls, aged seven and eight, each received kidney transplants. The younger girl had her operation at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center in Riyadh, whilst the other was treated at King Abdulaziz Medical City in Riyadh.



Partial liver transplants were conducted on two patients, a 68-year old man and two-year-old boy both suffering from liver failure.



The operations were also conducted at King Faisal Hospital in Riyadh.



Dr. Faisal Shaheen, general manager of the Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation, said extraction of the organs was carried out speedily and successfully.



He expressed delight at the cooperation between the donor’s family and the hospitals that carried out the operations and praised the efforts of staff at the center to ensure the success of the transplants.