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WHEN WE LOOK AT ORGAN DONATION RATES
Turkey Medicals member and Founding President of the Turkish Association of Cerebral Vascular Diseases Professor Doctor explains;
- The first heart transplant in the World was performed on 2 December 1967 by Doctor Christian Barnard at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. But the patient was able to live for 18 days. In parallel with advances in medicine, heart transplants and other organs (kidney, pancreas, liver, bone marrow, uterus, etc.) their transplantation is also much more successful, and people can now live a healthy and longer life.
. - Organ donation is the fact that a person, while alive, voluntarily allows some or all of their organs to be used for the treatment of others after death, or their guardians allow the donation of organs of a brain-dead individual. Anyone who has reached the age of eighteen and is mentally stable can donate organs.
. - When we look at organ donation rates, there is an average difference of at least 10 times between us and developed countries, if we need to make a comparison. For example, the organ donation rate per million people is 3.6 in Turkey, while this rate is 32 in Spain, 25 in America, 23.8 in France and 21.6 in Italy. Organ donation card recipients are also low in US, but have shown a good increase with intensive work over the past two years. In Istanbul, the number of people receiving organ donation cards in 2019 was 35 thousand 200. In 2006, this figure was only 2,500. The number of patients waiting for Organ transplantation is 48 thousand and 4 thousand 5 thousand people are added to this number every year. The total number of transplants performed in US is a maximum of 2 thousand 500-3 thousand people per year (from a cadaver + live donor in Turkey), and the rest are unfortunately abandoned to their fate. 70 percent of the transplants are provided from a living person and 30 percent from a cadaver. Ideally, most of them are transplants made from cadavers.
. - In parallel with medical developments, the number of organs that can be transplanted increases every day, as well as the number of patients waiting for organ transplantation increases. But in response to these increases, donations remain well below average. The most important factor in this scarcity of numbers is religious reservations and thoughts, and people say, “if I donate organs, will I sin? “Thinking plays an important role. “Do you want to donate organs?“ or a relative of a brain-dead patient “Your patient has brain-dead, would you approve of donating his organs to someone else in need?“ when we ask, most relatives of the person or brain mortal say that they” want to consult a cleric first.” Unfortunately, there are many people who refuse organ donation when a cleric who has been consulted expresses a negative opinion. Therefore, in order for this issue to reach the desired level, it is very important that religious officials, first of all, citizens and especially US doctors and other health officials are trained with religious knowledge based on the Koran.
. - For this purpose, and perhaps in the hope that it will contribute, I raise the issue so that it can be discussed based on the Koran and create basic knowledge for our doctor colleagues who are the first to talk to patients within the framework of my religious knowledge.
. - Our body consists of the energy we call the material body and soul. The soul is basically a conscious energy derived from Allah. And our body is the dress of this part of energy created by Allah (or a car, a passenger). In order to protect our body, which is the dress of this energy of Allah, from nudity and cold, we have dressed ourselves in clothes that we make in different shapes of colors and fashions from race to race and region to region. Therefore, our conscious energy caused by Allah is surrounded by two dresses, one of which is our body, which is a dress caused by Allah, and the other is a human dress-clothing made by people. Whether our body, which is a dress caused by Allah, or our dress that we have dressed in our body, both are basically substances created by Allah. And when they are both used and finished, they will remain in this world as nothing but pulp. Therefore, all other living and inanimate things that we use, especially our bodies, are things that Allah has created and given us (our soul) for rent and temporary use, and we are tenants (Hadid-5-7: for Allah belongs to the kingdom of the heavens and the Earth. Spend for Allah what he has made you judge and has given you.) We’re the driver, pilot or captain of the ride we use. In a different expression, we can use a phrase in the form of “Hakkı inside and the people’s outside”.
. - We, the people who are tenants, leave the items and items we use to other people to use when we die. As such, if the body we use as tenants is intact and will benefit another body, we can allow it to be used. For this purpose, we can allow our own organs to be used by any other person as a friend before he died also one of the organs approval or forgiveness to someone else we can convince another person to donate an organ to a solid. Such forgiveness will be for a person to continue the worship of spending, which we call Zakat, after death. Allowing our bodies, which are world-class goods, to be used as cadavers by medical school students for education, is also another form of positive activity. Even these behaviors can be considered as a kind of worship. Because a person who is sick is helped by replacing a sick organ with a solid organ or making a positive contribution to medical education in the form of a cadaver. The Qur’an emphasizes that helping a person is basically considered a help made to a society, even to all humanity. This is the basic meaning underlying the message in verse 32 of Surat Al-Ma’ida (Al-Ma’ida-32: for this reason, we informed the children of Israel in the book: “whoever kills a person without a person’s reward or corruption on Earth, it is as if he has killed all people. One who saves a person’s life, it is as if he saved the lives of all people).
. - Since brain death has occurred, the rental task of the body, which is at a stage where conscious energy caused by Allah will no longer be used, has been completed, the use of this body by another person, at the command of Allah and Surah Hadid 5-7. it will be in accordance with the message in the verses: “spend for Allah.” “244 and 245: strive in the way of Allah and contribute to what I have created.this is your help to me, and it is a debt you have given me. know that Allah is all-hearing, all-knowing. Who is he who will lend Allah a good loan, so that Allah may double it for him? Allah reduces or multiplies. But to him you will be returned.” And the Qur’an states that contributions made in the way of Allah are contributions made to what Allah has created, and explains that they will be doubled as seeds that give seven (Baqara-261: the likeness of those who spend their wealth in the way of Allah is like a seed that grows seven ears, each of which has a hundred grains. Allah gives double to whomever he wills. Allah is all-merciful, all-knowing. Hz. Muhammad also reinforced this issue by saying in a hadith, “the best of people is the one who is good to others.”
. - We can give an example of this: when our conscious energy caused by Allah uses a car, it means that he temporarily rented this car, temporarily owned it. The same driver also used and took advantage of different cars when he changed the car or bought a new one when he was old. When the driver makes a mistake, the account is asked by the driver, not the car. Therefore, when an organ is donated, a part of a car that is not in an accountable position is transferred to another car, another driver uses this part in the life of this world, and the only car that Allah has given him as a rental is supported.
I wish you to be an individual who does not need an Organ transplant, but accepts organ donation.
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President of Organ Transplant Center at MedicalPark Hospital Antalya
Turkey's world-renowned organ transplant specialist. Dr. Demirbaş has 104 international publications and 102 national publications.
Physician's Resume:
Born on August 7, 1963 in Çorum, Prof. Dr. Alper Demirbaş has been continuing his work as the President of MedicalPark Antalya Hospital Organ Transplantation Center since 2008.
Prof. who performed the first tissue incompatible kidney transplant in Turkey, the first blood type incompatible kidney transplant, the first kidney-pancreas transplant program and the first cadaveric donor and live donor liver transplant in Antalya. Dr. As of August 2016, Alper Demirbaş has performed 4900 kidney transplants, 500 liver transplants and 95 pancreas transplants.
In addition to being the chairman of 6 national congresses, he has also been an invited speaker at 12 international and 65 national scientific congresses. Dr. Alper Demirbaş was married and the father of 1 girl and 1 boy.
Awards:
Eczacibasi Medical Award of 2002, Akdeniz University Service Award of 2005, Izder Medical Man of the Year Award of 2006, BÖHAK Medical Man of the Year Award of 2007, Sabah Mediterranean Newspaper Scientist of the Year Award of 2007, ANTIKAD Scientist of the Year Award of 2009, Social Ethics Association Award of 2010, Işık University Medical Man of the Year Award of 2015, VTV Antalya's Brand Value Award of 2015.
Certificates:
Doctor of Medicine Degree Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine Ankara, General Surgeon Ministry of Health Turkey EKFMG (0-477-343-8), University of Miami School of Medicine Member of Multiple Organ Transplant, ASTS Multiorgan Transplant Scholarship. Lecturer at Kyoto University. Lecturer at University of Essen, Research assistant at the University of Cambridge .
Professional Members:
American Society of Transplant Surgeons, American Transplantation Society Nominated, Middle East and Southern Africa Council Transplantation Society 2007, International Liver Transplantation Association, Turkish Transplantation Association, Turkish Society of Surgery, Turkish Hepatobiliary Surgery Association.
Disclaimer:
Our website contents consist of articles approved by our Web and Medical Editorial Board with the contributions of our physicians. Our contents are prepared only for informational purposes for public benefit. Be sure to consult your doctor for diagnosis and treatment.
Turkey's world-renowned organ transplant specialist. Dr. Demirbaş has 104 international publications and 102 national publications.
Physician's Resume:
Born on August 7, 1963 in Çorum, Prof. Dr. Alper Demirbaş has been continuing his work as the President of MedicalPark Antalya Hospital Organ Transplantation Center since 2008.
Prof. who performed the first tissue incompatible kidney transplant in Turkey, the first blood type incompatible kidney transplant, the first kidney-pancreas transplant program and the first cadaveric donor and live donor liver transplant in Antalya. Dr. As of August 2016, Alper Demirbaş has performed 4900 kidney transplants, 500 liver transplants and 95 pancreas transplants.
In addition to being the chairman of 6 national congresses, he has also been an invited speaker at 12 international and 65 national scientific congresses. Dr. Alper Demirbaş was married and the father of 1 girl and 1 boy.
Awards:
Eczacibasi Medical Award of 2002, Akdeniz University Service Award of 2005, Izder Medical Man of the Year Award of 2006, BÖHAK Medical Man of the Year Award of 2007, Sabah Mediterranean Newspaper Scientist of the Year Award of 2007, ANTIKAD Scientist of the Year Award of 2009, Social Ethics Association Award of 2010, Işık University Medical Man of the Year Award of 2015, VTV Antalya's Brand Value Award of 2015.
Certificates:
Doctor of Medicine Degree Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine Ankara, General Surgeon Ministry of Health Turkey EKFMG (0-477-343-8), University of Miami School of Medicine Member of Multiple Organ Transplant, ASTS Multiorgan Transplant Scholarship. Lecturer at Kyoto University. Lecturer at University of Essen, Research assistant at the University of Cambridge .
Professional Members:
American Society of Transplant Surgeons, American Transplantation Society Nominated, Middle East and Southern Africa Council Transplantation Society 2007, International Liver Transplantation Association, Turkish Transplantation Association, Turkish Society of Surgery, Turkish Hepatobiliary Surgery Association.
Disclaimer:
Our website contents consist of articles approved by our Web and Medical Editorial Board with the contributions of our physicians. Our contents are prepared only for informational purposes for public benefit. Be sure to consult your doctor for diagnosis and treatment.
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