Egypt Becomes Another Middle Eastern Nation To Encourage Organ Donation

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Despite religious and cultural barriers, Egypt is now encouraging organ donation and would have this detail listed on the national cards of their citizens.



It’s a heart-warming gesture and one of great surprise that Egypt is now encouraging the humanitarian gesture of organ donation. Despite its cultural barriers, the country’s health ministry will now be introducing the option of organ donation on every individual’s national IDs.

This would be most advantageous for citizen posthumously and help in saving precious lives. It is also great to know that many Middle Eastern countries have already moved on and implemented organ transplant schemes very successfully.

Following a meeting with President Abdel Fattah El Sisi earlier this week, his advisor on health Mohamed Tag El Din issued a statement confirming that the government was looking into introducing an organ donation option on Egyptian national ID cards, as is the practice in many countries around the world.

Although Egypt legalised posthumous organ donations in 2010 at which time a health ministry committee was formed to manage them, political instability in the ensuing years was a major hindrance to the committee’s plans to make it a more common practice, according to a televised statement by committee member Dr Inas Abdel Halim last week.

Ms Abdel Halim said there are cultural and psychological barriers in many Egyptians’ minds that make them see organ donations after death as a violation of the sanctity of the deceased.

Furthermore, posthumous organ donations were in the past rejected by some of Egypt’s religious figures such as renowned Islamic scholar Sheikh Muhammad Metwalli Al Sha'rawi who denounced them in a famous television interview on the grounds that the body does not belong to the human, but to God, and that the human has no right to donate or alter something that he does not own.

There is a racket of illegal organ smuggling that is prevalent more in India and continues to attract many from abroad for accepting organs, on meagre amounts. People without families, ill or homeless are known to willfully sell or are lured into selling their organs without their consent.

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