In a major humanitarian act, the family of a brain-dead man in Abu Dhabi donated the deceased’s heart to a patient in Riyadh suffering from heart failure. A medical team from King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center visited the Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi to perform a donor heart removal surgery.
After obtaining the consent of the deceased’s relatives, the organ donation process was performed in approximately four minutes of surgery.
The organ was then airlifted to Riyadh and reached the hospital within four hours. The heart was carried by a well-equipped technical staff and a medical evacuation team. In
In Riyadh, a successful heart transplant gave a Saudi patient new life.
