Saudi young woman saves several lives after death
A Saudi woman who died the Dammam’s hospital became a symbolic personality for others in saving several lives via presenting organs to ailing persons, however, the organs’ donation is still a taboo amongst Muslims, Alarabiya reported.
The donating organs including her heart, liver and kidneys while the body parts were transplanted to four needy persons between ages of 15 to 64 from Dammam and Riyadh cities.
The reports said that the woman’s heart was given to a 44-year-old Saudi patient at Prince Sultan Cardiac Center in Riyadh; one kidney was donated to a 15-year-old Saudi boy in Riyadh.
Moreover, her liver was transplanted to a 64-year-old patient in Dammam; and the other kidney went to a 36-year-old man in Dammam.
The woman was lying in the hospital brain dead for the past week and a charitable organisation named “Ethar” approached her family for encouraging them to donate her organs for needy.
Organ transplant specialist, Hassan Abdullah Al Khanani, told Al Watan newspaper several patients throughout the Kingdom benefited from the step.
According to al-Khanani, heart and lung transplants were carried out for patients in Riyadh. Liver, pancreas and Kidney transplants were carried out in Dammam, he added.
The 20-year-old girls’ organs were immediately transferred on Friday by a medical aircraft, al-Khanani said. The girl’s family agreed to proceed with the process after a charity organization aiming to encourage organ donations in the Eastern Province convinced them.
Head of the organization “Ethar” told the newspaper that the process was accomplished rapidly.
A committee at Ethar works on countering misconceptions about organ donations in the Kingdom.
Most Muslim scholars of Islamic law have argued that the donation of organs is permissible under Sharia, while others deemed it impermissible, claiming that tampering a human being’s dead body amounts to mutilating God’s creation.
