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Three organs from a British tourist in Turkey's Aegean province of Muğla have been donated to Turkish patients waiting for transplantation, doctors said on Sunday.
The British tourist, Janet Bradley (70), who was staying in her hotel room in the tourist haven of Ölüdeniz, suddenly suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and was taken by ambulance to the private Lokman Hekim Esnaf Hospital in Fethiye on Thursday.
The massive stroke incapacitated the British woman. Severe hemorrhaging caused significant brain damage, leaving her in a vegetative state.
Fethiye State Hospital Deputy head doctor and Fethiye Organ Transplantation Coordinator Uğur Çomak then contacted Bradley's relatives and asked if they would be willing to approve transplantation of her organs to waiting patients.
The family approved the donation, and Çomak submitted Bradley's tissue characteristics to the organ donation center. Doctors soon identified three Turkish patients with matching tissue characteristics.
Her kidneys have been sent to two patients in İzmir Ege University Hospital, while her liver has been sent to a patient in İstanbul's Florence Nightingale Hospital.
Çomak told reporters that he hopes the donation of the English tourist's organs will set an example for Turks with regard to organ donation.
Explaining that the patient could not survive after a severe cerebral hemorrhage and brain death, Çomak said this donation is “very important for us.”
The deputy head doctor of the hospital, Murat Aynacı, told reporters that the donation of the patients' organs to Turkish families is very important in terms of increasing public awareness about organ donation.
The British tourist, Janet Bradley (70), who was staying in her hotel room in the tourist haven of Ölüdeniz, suddenly suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and was taken by ambulance to the private Lokman Hekim Esnaf Hospital in Fethiye on Thursday.
The massive stroke incapacitated the British woman. Severe hemorrhaging caused significant brain damage, leaving her in a vegetative state.
Fethiye State Hospital Deputy head doctor and Fethiye Organ Transplantation Coordinator Uğur Çomak then contacted Bradley's relatives and asked if they would be willing to approve transplantation of her organs to waiting patients.
The family approved the donation, and Çomak submitted Bradley's tissue characteristics to the organ donation center. Doctors soon identified three Turkish patients with matching tissue characteristics.
Her kidneys have been sent to two patients in İzmir Ege University Hospital, while her liver has been sent to a patient in İstanbul's Florence Nightingale Hospital.
Çomak told reporters that he hopes the donation of the English tourist's organs will set an example for Turks with regard to organ donation.
Explaining that the patient could not survive after a severe cerebral hemorrhage and brain death, Çomak said this donation is “very important for us.”
The deputy head doctor of the hospital, Murat Aynacı, told reporters that the donation of the patients' organs to Turkish families is very important in terms of increasing public awareness about organ donation.
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