Okaz/Saudi Gazette
RIYADH — The Well being Providers Division Hospitals, affiliated to the Ministry of Protection, have up to now carried out a complete of 4,555 organ transplant operations. That is by 11 organ transplant applications, supervised by these hospitals, in line with a report.
The transplant operations included 3,664 kidney transplants, 118 coronary heart transplants, 480 liver transplants, and 293 marrow and stem cells transplants. The kidney transplant program was first launched in Prince Sultan Army Medical Metropolis in Riyadh in 1979. This was the primary kidney transplant program within the Kingdom, and it was a hit.
The Well being Providers Hospitals underneath the ministry expanded the kidney transplantation program, with launching 5 kidney transplant applications within the Armed Forces Hospital within the South, King Fahd Armed Forces Hospital in Jeddah, King Salman Armed Forces Hospital within the North, and the Armed Forces Hospital in Al-Hada.
A significant characteristic of those applications is preemptive kidney transplant. Greater than 2,000 dialysis sufferers have undergone this kind of transplant in over 13 dialysis items of army hospitals affiliated to the Well being Providers of the Ministry of Protection.
Along with the kidney transplant program, the Well being Providers Division has developed different organ transplant applications, together with the institution of Bone Marrow and Stem Cell Transplant Heart in 1981, which was specialised in performing marrow and stem cell transplants for blood illnesses and tumors affecting lymphatic system, along with launching the center transplant program on the Prince Sultan Cardiac Heart, and the liver transplant program at Prince Sultan Army Medical Metropolis in 1990.
It’s noteworthy that these operations had been carried out by the mixed efforts of all collaborating medical groups and the air medical evacuation wing of the Well being Providers underneath the Ministry of Protection. This was the end result of the outstanding coordination between the Saudi Heart for Organ Transplantation and the Government Committee for Organ Transplantation on the Well being Providers Division underneath the Ministry of Protection.