THE CASE OF ORGAN DONATION

Hira Noor

Zoha Naeem

Sameer Ahad

TABLE OF CONTENT

Defining organ transplantation Transferable organs History of organ transplantation First successful kidney transplant Heart transplant Organ donation statistics Facts Benefits Transplantation in the light of religion Role of our president Conclusion

ORGAN DONATION• Organ donation is the removal of the

tissues of the human body from a person who has recently died, or from a living donor, for the purpose of transplanting.

• Organ donor - someone from whom an organ is taken for transplantation

• Organ recipient- the one who receives the organ.

TRANSFERABLE ORGANS

HISTORY OF KIDNEY TRANSPLANT

1902- The first experimental animal kidney transplants at the Veinna Medical School.

1909- The first human kidney transplant experiments in France.

1933- The first human-to-human kidney transplant.

Failure due to mismatches in donor and recepients blood group.

HISTORY OF KIDNEY TRANSPLANT

• 1940’s- Sir Peter Medawar experimented with the immunologic basis of organ rejection.

• Early 1950’s-Kidney transplantation success by the use of cortisone.

• 1954- Joseph E. Murray and his colleagues in Boston performed the first truly successful kidney transplant.

FIRST SUCCESSFUL KIDNEY TRANSPLANT

Heart transplant

• Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed the world’s first human heart transplant operation on 3 December, 1967

• Operation was assisted by his brother, Marius Barnard

• The operation lasted for nine hours and used a team of thirty people.

ORGAN DONATION STATISTICS

According to the organs, the total donations could be split into:

• 7180 kidney donations

• 7017 liver donations

• 2275 heart donations

• 2026 pancreas donations

• 1325 lung donations

• 184 intestine donations

ORGAN DONATION STATISTICS

According to the race/ethnicity, the total donations could be split into:

• 5427 white donations• 1243 black donations• 1097 Hispanic donations• 174 Asian donations• 42 multiracial donations• 22 AM Indian/Alaska donations• 19 Pacific Islander donations

FACTS

• For every one organ or tissue donor, over 50 lives can be saved or improved.

• Every day 19 people die due to shortage of organ transplants.

• Nearly 10 percent of the patients under 18 years of age are currently waiting for liver transplants.

• The ability to save life

• Positive moral feelings

• Better quality of life

• Cost effective

• Social responsibility

BENEFITS OF ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION

IN THE LIGHT OF RELIGION

• According to

Amish, Buddhism, Brethren, Catholicism, Episcopal, Hinduism, Judaism and so on, are of the belief that one should donate their organs to save humanity.

• Baptist belief that donation is supported as an act of charity.

ASIF ALI ZARDARI

• President Asif Ali Zardari has become the first President to donate all his body organs after signing a bill to enact a law to regulate transplant of human organs in the country.

ORGAN TRANPLANTATION BILL

(CONCLUSION)

• The organ transplantation bill lying unattended in the house of the parliament.

• All Muslim countries, and many others, have already passed necessary legislation.