By Christina Andrews
Students in Education City have joined hands to increase awareness of organ donation in Qatar and encourage people to sign up as donors to save lives.
On March 25, 2012, Education City Charity Trust (EECT), a student run organization, kicked off an organ donation campaign to spread awareness about the virtues of donating organs.
Since 1997, Qatar has had a law that legalizes organ and tissue donation. HMC has also had a kidney transplant program for over 20 years and began doing liver transplants three months ago with two successful transplants.
Earlier, Hamad Medical Corporation inaugurated a donor card program where signees can pledge their organs for donation by signing an organ donation consent and in return get a card that they can carry with them.
Up to 25 human beings can benefit from the generosity of one person’s organ donation,
