Workshop on 'Deceased organ donor for transplantation' organised at SIUT

A pre '11th CRITICON' Critical Care Medicine Congress' workshop on 'Deceased organ donor for transplantation' organised by Centre for Organ Donation was held at Agha Hasan Abedi Auditorium Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT).
Dr Anwar Naqvi welcoming the guests highlighted the importance of 'Deceased organ donor for transplantation' workshop which will provide an insight to the participants to learn and practice different aspects of the deceased organ donor programme. He said that such workshops should be organised on regular basis to boost up the message to become an organ donor and save many precious lives in the country.
Dr Naqvi informed that at SIUT, we have a dedicated Centre for Organ Donation for this purpose with a UAN: (021-111 HAYATI) 021 111 429 284. During the congress, the importance of deceased organ donation and its effectiveness was discussed at length. The experts said that awareness should be created on every step to save precious lives waiting for deceased organ donation. They said "around 150,000 patients die in Pakistan each year due to organ failure. Majority of these patients can be saved if organs are available for transplantation." They said countries established a deceased donor programme also including Muslim countries like Saudi Arabia, Iran, Turkey, Kuwait, Lebanon, Malaysia, Indonesia, Egypt, and Bangladesh among others.
The experts highlighted that anyone at any age could become an organ donor, the first step was to make a will and fill a donor card and make that 'will' known to the family. They informed that ideally a person needed to be in an ICU on a ventilator and after being declared brain dead their organs might be saved and transplanted to save the lives of several people. They said organs that could be donated include kidneys, liver, heart, lungs, pancreas and intestine, adding the tissues that might be donated include corneas, skin and bone marrow etc.
The workshop presentations were delivered by Dr Manzoor Hussain, Dr Ejaz Ahmed, Dr Abdaal Wasim Khan, Dr Haider Mehdi, Dr Abbas Tasneem, Dr Mudassir Laeeq and Dr Qamar Abbas. Dr Sajid Sultan moderated a panel discussion with Dr Akhtar Waheed, Dr Tipu Sultan, Dr Saadqa Aftab, Dr Khairat Raza, Dr GM Shaikh, and Dr Wasim Khan.-PR