Over 11,000 register for organ donations

Muscat: With 11,262 people registered in the Shifa app for post-mortem organ donation, the total number of registrations increased by 37 percent this year compared to last year. Last year, 7,092 people were registered with the Ministry of Health’s app.

The Ministry of Health, represented by the National Programme for Organ Transplant Department, marked the Omani Organ Donation Day on Tuesday to raise awareness on the importance of organ donation.

The event was held under the auspices of HH Sayyid Kamil Fahd Al Said, Secretary-General at the Secretariat-General for the Council of Ministers.

The event aims at raising community awareness regarding the importance of organ donation as a humanitarian act and a generous initiative that is considered an appropriate solution to organic failure such as kidney failure, liver failure, and other ailments from which millions of patients suffer worldwide.

The ceremony included a presentation by Dr. Ahmed Al Busaidi, Director of the National Organ Transplant Programme Department, who highlighted what was accomplished during the year, especially the increase in the number of kidney transplant operations, as 17 kidneys were transplanted this year.

Moreover, the corneal transplant programme was activated with the undertaking of corneal transplant operations while there was a big rise in the number of registered people with Shifa application for post-mortem organ donation.

Moreover, several living organ donors and relatives of posthumous organ donors were honoured at the event. A three-day organ donation training course was launched in cooperation with the Donation Transplantation Institute, Spain.

Further, the Ministry of Health has activated a programme that allows the expression of desire to donate organs after death by registering in the Shifa application.

Organ donation is one of the best humanitarian deeds that a person can perform during his life or after his death.

Organ donation contributes directly to saving the lives of patients suffering from organ failure, and gives them a new lease of life. The lives of these patients can be saved only through organ donation. With ONA inputs