Hamad Medical Corporation honours 124 organ donors and their families – The Peninsula

Hamad Medical Corporation honours 124 organ donors and their families – The Peninsula

Doha: The Qatar Organ Donation Center (Hiba) and Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) has honoured 71 living kidney donors, eight living liver donors, 10 stem cell donors and 35 deceased donor families in a special ceremony in Doha.

The ceremony, held at Katara Opera House, marks the most successful year ever for Qatar’s Organ Transplant and Organ Donation Programs, with more kidney transplants than ever before being conducted at HMC.

Other achievements of the last 12 months include three successful lung transplant operations during the first year of the programme launch.

At the event, which coincided with Qatar Organ Donation Center’s (Hiba) 10th anniversary, the Medal of Altruism was presented to 124 living donors and the families of deceased donors. The event also saw acknowledgement of 23 Qatari kidney transplant recipients who chose to have their transplant surgery in Qatar rather than going abroad for treatment.

Dr. Riadh Fadhil, Director, Qatar Organ Donation Center and member of the World Health Organization Expert Group, said that the nation’s organ donor registry surpassed 500,000 registered donors, representing around 25 percent of Qatar’s adult population.

“There are more than 131 nationalities represented in the registry that reflected positively on the rate of organ donation among all nationalities, which is