Name : Chan Wei Chuen
Matrics No.: SEZ150110
INTRODUCTION In 1954, first organ transplant had successfully occur at Brigham Hospital in Boston. What is organ donation? Organ donation is a process of transferring an organ or a part of organ from one person which known as donor to another person for the purpose of transplantation. Donated organ is for the patient with damaged organ that need to replace. To become an organ donor, blood and oxygen must flow through the organs until the time of recovery to ensure viability. There are 3 different types of organ donation which includes : brain stem death, circulatory death and living donation. For brain stem death donor, it is a type of organ …show more content…
As the result, the statistics shown that there are increase in the number of people that register to become an organ donor during this few years. There are many advantages through the organ donation. First of all through the organ donation, with just only one organ donor can save up to eight people lives. This is because there are many organs that can be get from one donor and can use to save people that having different kind of disease. The organs that can be get from a circulatory death donor was heart, liver, kidneys, lungs, pancreas and small intestines. For the organs recipient, they can have their second chance of live. Through organ donation, we know that the recipients will no longer need to depend on those medical treatment in order to continue their live. Those organ recipients can have back their normal lifestyle if the process of organ transplant was …show more content…
Organ donation was truly having its advantages, but it also having some disadvantage. We all knew that organ donation can save patient live by replacing their damaged organ with new ones. But some side effect may come along together with it. First of all, the disadvantage of the organ donation is that the recipients may suffer from some side effect after the process of organ donation. One of the famous side effect cause by the organ donation is diabetes. Statistics shows that 1 out of 10 people that received organs from the organ donor may having diabetes. As we know, organ transplant is one very risky process. Organ rejection may occurs during the process of transplantation. So doctors will use some drugs to suppress the immune system so that body would not show any rejection towards the new organs. However, the drugs that used will cause diabetes to the recipient or it will worsen the diabetes condition if the patient was originally suffer from