MAKKAH – Two patients in Riyadh and Jeddah will benefit from the liver and kidneys of a brain dead expatriate in Makkah. Qassim Al-Khateeb, director of the central care unit at Al-Noor Specialist Hospital in Makkah, said a Public Security helicopter transported the surgically removed organs to the hospitals where the patients are being treated. A patient at the National Guard Hospital in Riyadh will benefit from the liver and one kidney while the second kidney will be donated to a patient at a specialist hospital in Jeddah, the Saudi Press Agency reported. Dr. Ayman Yamani, director of Al-Noor Hospital, said the 55-year-old expatriate was admitted to the hospital in a coma after suffering from brain hemorrhage. When the medical team treating the man pronounced him brain dead, hospital authorities contacted the Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation (SCOT) and the center in turn contacted the relatives of the expatriate. The operation to harvest the organs was carried out on Wednesday after receiving the relatives' consent. Dr. Faisal Shaheen, director of SCOT, thanked the family members of the expatriate for their humanitarian gesture.
