Friday 6 December 2013

News: Bangladeshi woman donates her organs in Saudi Arabia


A clinically dead Bangladeshi woman helped save the lives of three Saudis and one Qatari by donating her kidneys, liver and lungs to the four patients.
Doctors said they had performed coordinated transplant operations on the four patients at two hospitals in the Gulf Kingdom after getting approval from the relatives of the Bangladeshi woman residing in Saudi Arabia.
Two separate kidney transplant operations were performed on two Saudi men aged 44 and 46 years at the military hospital in the capital Riyadh.
A liver transplant operation was performed on a 47-year-old Saudi woman at a Riyadh hospital while a 32-year-old Qatari man underwent a lungs transplant surgery at the same hospital, according to the Arabic language daily Ajel.
It said the Bangladeshi woman, 38, had been declared clinically ill at King Khaled Hospital in the central town of Kharj.

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