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organ donation

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Qatar’s organ donor registry swells to 100,000 people

  • Lesley Walker
  • November 24, 2015
With more than 57,000 new signatories to the Organ Donor Registry since March this year, it meets HMC's previous target of getting 100,000 people on the register by the end of the year.
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Qatar passes law on organ donation as push continues for more donors

  • Victoria Scott
  • August 20, 2015
The new law lays out the conditions under which organ donation is legal in Qatar, specifying that is must be urgent and that doctors must have exhausted all other treatment options.
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Qatar aims to double number of organ donors to 100,000 by year end

  • Lesley Walker
  • March 15, 2015
There are currently 43,000 people on Qatar's organ donor registry, which has been growing since the registry first started in 2012 with just 2,000 signatories and received a big boost in 2013 when then-first lady Sheikha Moza bint Nasser registered as a donor.
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Qatar’s National Organ Donor Registry doubles to 43,000 people

  • Shabina S. Khatri
  • September 30, 2014
The vast majority of those who signed up to be donors continues to be expats, as many Qataris and Arabs express reservations about the Islamic acceptability of the practice.
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Qatar campaign aims to sign up 20,000 new people for organ donation

  • Lesley Walker
  • July 18, 2014
Hamad Medical Corp. hopes to double the number of registered donors in the country this Ramadan, through awareness campaigns at local malls and supermarkets.
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Qatar conducts first kidney transplant on child

  • Doha News Team
  • January 1, 2013
A 10-year-old Qatar resident has successfully received a kidney from her uncle in the first such procedure to be conducted on a child in the country, Hamad Medical Corp. officials…
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’99 percent of organ donors are expats’

  • Doha News Team
  • December 7, 2012
About 99 percent of the donors in Qatar are expatriates because Qataris have not yet accepted the idea of organ donation. Dr. Yousuf Al Maslamani, head of the Organ Transplant…
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Officials: Religious, cultural obstacles hindering organ donation in Qatar

  • Doha News Team
  • May 3, 2012
Here’s the fifth in a series of spectacularly reported audio slideshows produced by freshmen journalism students at Northwestern University in Qatar. Religious and cultural obstacles are hindering Qatar’s efforts to…
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Number of organ donors in Qatar surges thanks to Sheikha Moza’s endorsement

  • Doha News Team
  • September 3, 2012
The number of people signing up to be organ donors in Qatar has jumped nearly 67 percent, thanks largely to Sheikha Moza’s endorsement of the practice, officials have said. Some…
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