The Panel on “Organ Donation Awareness” was held within the scope of the 100th Anniversary of Republic
The "Organ Donation Awareness Panel" was held by Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Nursing within the scope of the 100th anniversary of our Republic year, as part of the November 3-9 Organ Donation Week. At the opening of the panel, in which valuable information about organ transplantation and donation was conveyed by the experts of the subject, Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences Prof. Arif Aktuğ Ertekin and Vice Head of the Department of Nursing Assoc. Prof. Nurcan Uysal emphasized the importance of raising awareness about organ donation.
Türkiye is adequately equipped in terms of organ transplantation!
Department of Nursing faculty member Asst. Prof. Hatice Demirdağ, who moderated the panel, drew attention to the situation of organ donation in our country and in the world and the importance of organ donation, and said that Türkiye has sufficient equipment in terms of organ transplantation, but there are inadequacies in organ donation. Demirdağ stated that for this reason, the awareness of organ donation should be increased in the whole society, and this event supports this awareness.
Later in the meeting, Specialist Nurse Selda Urhan, who is Organ and Tissue Transplantation Coordinator of Health Sciences University Sultan Abdülhamit Han Education and Research Hospital, made a speech on "Organ Donation and Its Importance". In her speech, Urhan stated that "The best legacy you will leave is the organ donation you will make while you are alive. Every donated organ is a person holding on to life" and drew attention to what organ transplantation means, its types, from which organs and tissues organ transplantation can be performed in our country, and organ transplantation from living and cadaveric donors. Urhan also made evaluations in the context of the legal dimension of organ transplantation in Türkiye, brain death and its causes, and the differences between brain death and vegetative life and focused on who decides on brain death, the appropriateness of religious organ donation and who can donate.
One of the panelists, Organ and Tissue Transplantation Coordinator at Siyami Ersek Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Education and Research Hospital Engin Kösem made a speech titled "Organ Donation in Heart Transplantation". Kösem stated that sometimes the only solution for coronary artery, heart muscle and heart valve diseases is heart transplantation, that all infant, young or elderly patients may need heart transplantation, and that the biggest problem in this regard is the inability to find organs, and emphasized that organ donation is the only chance for patients waiting for a heart transplant, as heart transplantation can only be performed from a cadaver donor.
Another speaker at the meeting, Kartal Koşuyolu Yüksek İhtisas Education and Research Hospital Organ and Tissue Transplantation Coordinator Specialist Nurse Azize Göktürk, stated in her speech titled "Organ Donation in Lung Transplantation" that patients with respiratory failure and irreversible loss of lung function are candidates for lung transplantation and that lung transplantation is performed in a limited number of centers in our country. Göktür stated that lung transplantation is not known much in the society, and therefore lung donation and added that the rate of lung donations are less than other organs.
The last speaker of the panel was Ahmet Yücel, who is Organ and Tissue Transplantation Coordinator at Haydarpaşa Numune and Research Hospital. Yücel made evaluations on "Organ Donation in Kidney Transplantation" and emphasized that although the chance of survival after transplantation is quite high, the number of patients waiting for kidney transplantation is increasing day by day in our country. Stating that the vast majority of kidney transplants in our country are performed from living donors, Yücel stated that the number of patients waiting for kidney transplantation will decrease significantly with the increase in organ donations.
The concepts of organ transplantation and organ donation, which is one of the most vital issues in the field of health, were discussed in the program. The program ended with the presentation of a certificate of appreciation by the Vice Head of the Nursing Department, Assoc. Prof. Sebahat Ateş and a group photo taken.
Üsküdar News Agency (ÜNA)