Gazi University Hospital Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology called for organ donation with children as they do every year. The event organized by Gazi University Hospital Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology on the occasion of 3-9 November Organ Donation Awareness Week and pediatric patients who had liver transplantation at our hospital and their families joined the event. The event aimed at raising awareness about organ donation. The families and the doctors stated that the outcome of the event should create more donors and said: ‘a donation a new life.’

The opening speech was made by the Head of Gastroenterology Prof. Dr. Buket Dalgıç and she said that there are many patients in our country waiting for a donor and the number of donations are insufficient. She added that the number of organ donor operations are a lot less than expected. Prof. Dr. Buket Dalgıç stated that they come together every year on the organ donation week with the children who had transplant operation at the university hospital, their families and the healthcare personnel who helped those patients during their treatment process in order to create awareness in the society. She said that organ transplantation is a miraculous treatment and they organize such events to remind that there are many patients waiting for a donor and added that the number of live donors is insufficient and the rate of organ transplantation from cadavers should increase.

Gazi University the Head of Organ and Tissue Transplantation Centre and our University lecturer at Department of General Surgery Prof. Dr. Aydın Dalgıç stated that organ transplantation is a difficult process and there are thousands of children waiting for a donor and said:’ I want our society to raise consciousness about organ transplantation issue.’

Medical Faculty Hospital Deputy Chief Physician Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ahmet Demircan stated: ‘Our kids now playing so joyfully is the greatest happiness for us. ‘And said: ‘We would like the number of donations to increase and we want many patients to take advantage of it.’

The patients’ families talked about the things they had been through during the event and the kids read poems to draw attention to organ donation.

One of the patients’ relatives, a teacher, said: ‘Gazi is my hospital. Luckily it is our hospital and we are fortunate to have our doctors. I would like to thank all our doctors and the healthcare personnel for giving us a new life.’

During the event, the kids accompanied the folk dancers and they had cake at the end of the event and played with medicine students happily.

07.11.2016 / Consultancy of Press and Public Relations