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Article: Group seeks shift on organ donations.
- Article from:
- Arab News (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia)
- Article date:
- May 4, 2009
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Byline: Siraj Wahab
ALKHOBAR: For a young accident victim or chronically ill hospital patient, cultural taboos against organ donations can be a death sentence. Now a group of highly motivated and concerned Saudis, led by prominent businessman Abdul Aziz Alturki, has launched discussions on the creation of a society to raise awareness about the issue in Saudi Arabia.
Donating organs to the sick or injured people is not considered to be an obligation by many in the Arab world and Saudi Arabia in particular. Yet hundreds, if not thousands, of Saudi men, women and children are forced to endure pain and misery in the absence of healthy organs.
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