The construction of an organ donor database and the beginning of executive organ transplantation processes in Egypt were both announced by the Egyptian Ministry of Health.
The official spokeswoman for the Egyptian Ministry of Health, Hossam Abdel Ghaffar, made these remarks exclusively to Al Arabiya.
In order to provide the greatest medical care, both for the donor and the donor, it is expected that a mechanised database for human organ transplant programmes will be built and electronically connected to the Supreme Committee and organ transplant institutions. the sufferer.
He emphasised the necessity for a database that includes both donors and people in need, emphasising that having a single database for both donors and those in need makes it easier to follow-up operations, identify success rates and issues, and streamline operations.
He stated that the importance of routinely monitoring patients’ health status for a minimum of six months following transplant operations as well as the creation of new programmes in the field of organ transplantation, particularly lung transplantation, will be stressed.
After all requirements were satisfied, the licencing process for two new centres for kidney and liver transplants was approved, according to the Egyptian health spokesman. He also noted that Egypt has more than 37 licenced centres for organ transplantation, with one of those centres being ranked fifth in the world.
The transplantation of all human organs will be performed at the centre that will be established at the “Nasser Institute,” according to Abdel Ghaffar, who also noted that some human organs, like the lung, can only be obtained from the deceased while others, like the cornea, can only be obtained within a certain time frame from the living.
If it is not moved from the deceased to those who need it within 48 hours, it will be damaged in the same way as damage to the heart occurs.
Egypt had previously stated that it is taking into consideration including the option of post-mortem organ donation in its residents’ identity cards.
In prior interviews with Al-Arabiya, Dr. Mohamed Awad Taj El-Din, the Egyptian President’s advisor for health and prevention affairs, remarked.
it is being studied to include the option of organ donation on the national ID card, as is the case in many other nations throughout the world.
He emphasised that the donor and his family have the right to withdraw their consent at any time, and that the family also has the right to refuse to carry out the donor’s wish to donate their son’s organs after his death. He also emphasised that even if the donor’s wish was expressed before death, it will not be required to do so.
According to the Almighty, “And whomever saves her life, it is as though he saved all mankind,” the Egyptian Dar Al-Iftaa confirmed that organ donation after death is regarded as charitable giving.
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The donation comes from the door of ongoing charity and the return of benefit to others, according to Khaled Omran, Secretary of the Fatwa at the Egyptian Dar Al Iftaa. He added that the conditions for the donation must include the need to ensure that the person dies a real death, not a clinical death, and that the donation is made through a confirmed will and attested to it. a doctor.
Egypt will launch an organ transplant database within six months.
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