Süleyman Demirel Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Sağlık Personelinin Organ Bağışına Bakışı

Organ or tissue transplantation is the moving of an organ or tissue from one body to another who is either dead or only his/her brain is dead, or from a donor site on the patient s own body, for the purpose of replacing the recipient s damaged or absent organ. In this study we observed the viewpoints of Faculty of Medicine staff who are the last defense line of human health, to organ donation. The study has been done in 2009 between September to November at the Suleyman Demirel University, Faculty of Medicine, Research and Application Hospital. During this period, it has been reported that there were 536 people working at the hospital. It has been recorded that there were 133 (24,8%) doctors, 92 (17,2%) nurses and medical officers and 311 (58%) other staff included in the study. When we ask which organs would they choose to donate, the data as follows: Kidney: 100% (n.536), Liver: 80% (n.429), Heart: 82,8% (n.444), Pancreas: 26,1% (n:140), Lungs: 27,6% (n:148), Small intestine: 13,4 (n:72), Cornea:73,7% (n:395), Bones: 17,7%(n:95), Skin: 36,7% (n:197), Neuron: 15,3 (n:82), Bone marrow: 77,7% (n:416). The data of thenumber of staff who know patients that received an organ transplant, the staff who know patientsthat are expecting an organ transplant and the staff who has a family member willingly donatedorgans, suggest that there is a significant tendency of donating more organs (p:0.002, p:0.011,p:0.000). It is a requirement to observe the viewpoint, the knowledge and organ donation rate ifthere is any of the entire society about the organ donation. Additionally the factors that affect thedonation decision negatively upon society must be identified also. There are ethical factors such ascostumes, traditions and beliefs that may affect the organ donation. However we do not know howthey affect the viewpoint of the society. Thus it is important and a requirement that these factorsmust be observed.