General Director of the Saudi center of organ donation, Dr. Faisal Shaheen said that the number of patients who need kidney transplant in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia is estimated at about 14 thousand patients spread over units of dialysis and the number who are ready for transplant and on waiting lists in the center is estimated at about three thousand patients according to the total Lists of transplant Centers while the number of those who are under study and medical preparation would recite to 2,000 patients to put them on waiting lists and all who are ready patients for kidney transplant about 550 patients annually.
In addition to the number of patients who have hepatic cirrhosis and need a liver transplant is estimated at about 1,500 patients and the number who are ready for transplant and on waiting lists of more than 400 patients and are grown from 50 to 120 patients per year.
Dr. Faisal Shaheen added that this increase in the number of patients with chronic renal failure and hemodialysis for several years from 2.3 years on average, in addition to the patients exposed to the complications of chronic renal disease including anemia & HIV and infectious diseases. also quite a few proportion of them are old aged, all of this leads, according to the latest studies to increased mortality in light of the scarcity of donor organs and, for example, the address of the World Day of the kidneys for this year was (kidney aging like you) and there are directions to treat mortality problem with older patients suffering from chronic renal failure, and how to treat them.
The general Director of organs donation center confirmed that mortality rates of dialysis patients with chronic renal failure in the kingdom are the same as in developed countries and we keep up with all the global studies and seek through the scientific steps and in coordination with the Prince Fahd bin Salman Charitable Society for the care of patients with renal failure (both of us) and through governmental institutions to increase dialysis units and improve their performance and provide more organs for transplantation as possible.
Dr/Shaheen said that the center is particularly involved in conferences and local & international seminars and his presence represent a fundamental pillar in the structure of the medical services provided to patients with organ failure where he resides seminars on brain death and Care methods of deceased brain routinly as the Center recently participated in the conference of the Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation in Istanbul in 2014 as Dr. Shaheen, General Director of the Center won leadership and excellence (Mohammed Heber EL.) Award