A LITTLE ABOUT ORGAN DONATION..READ MORE, U KNOW MORE

What is organ donation? Actually, it is the removal of the tissues of the human body from a person who has recently died or from a living donor, for transplanting. People of all ages can be organ and tissue donors. Kidneys, heart, liver, lungs, pancreas, corneas, heart valves and bone as well as skin can all be transplanted. Skin can be used to treat patients with severe burns. Techniques for transplanting are improving all the time and it may soon be practical to transplant other parts of organ of the body so that many people who are suffer can get well enough to continue their life.

But, the question is, is it any religious problem about the organ transplant process? After a well discussion among the scientist and religious people, there are no any religious objections for organ donation. All the major religions of the world like Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, and Hinduism accept this organ donation as a mechanism to save people in suffer.

Even there are numerous campaigns and extensive media coverage, there are still a lot of people and even medical professionals who lack knowledge about organ donation, resulting in the loss of countless potential donors. Organ donation centre tried different approaches to spread the word on organ donation. As we know, the government itself had published the booklets about the importance of organ donation, they also have done an advertisements in cinemas and on prime time television to give that message to public. Unfortunately, many people still cannot understand why we need the organ donor. They only think about their future if they donate their organ to somebody else that they didn’t know.

For organ donation to be a success, the government should encourage more Malaysian scientist to do a research about the organ transplant without use human as main organ donor. Thereafter, the transplant coordination team must be ready to transport the organ successfully to the recipient. We also need to overcome infrastructural barriers, for example, an ambulance should be able to make it to the hospital on time which is first to save the person who may have a terrible accident so that they does not need an organ transplant in order to save their life.

There are several ways to increase the supply of organs. They include persuading more people to agree to be donors when they die, putting hospital policies and procedures in place to foster organ donation, obtaining more organs donated from the victims of brain death and cardiac death and increasing the number of live donors, especially people unrelated to the recipients. The success of any transplant program depends on the number of individuals who indicate in advance of their death their willingness to be donors.


In the early days of transplantation, donated organs and tissues came from victims of cardiac death, people who were no longer breathing and had no pulse, and whose hearts could not be function. So the doctor more interested to that heart transplant from the death body rather than the life person. Often by the time organs could be removed after a cardiac death, they had been without a blood supply for too long and were unusable or unlikely to survive in the recipients, but with nowadays technology we can overcome that problem easily.

So, we as Malaysian should help the government to transplant our organ to those who are needed so that they can live happily like us now. We need to think about their future too.

Thank you…..see u soon……….Diana