This document provides information about organ donation. It discusses how organ donation can save lives by helping the over 160,000 patients in need of transplants each year. It notes that many lives are lost due to the scarcity of organs and fear or lack of information about donation. The document outlines the types of organ donation including living donation and deceased donation. It lists the organs and tissues that can be donated, such as kidneys, heart, lungs, liver, pancreas, intestines, skin and bone. It provides statistics on organ donation and transplantation.

1. Organ
Donation
“Recycle organs, not just coke
cans.”

2. We all enjoy giving gifts to make our loved ones happy. But
have you ever wondered how it might feel to offer a gift to
someone you don’t know? What if that gift could help
save a life? No present can ever be as important as saving
someone’s life and you can accomplish this by donating
an organ. There are over 160,000 patients that require
transplants every year. We can help them, by spreading
awareness about Organ Donation Day and bursting myths
associated with donating organs that stop individuals from
saving lives.
“Your organ could be
someone’s missing piece.”

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4. About Organ
Donation
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Millions of people are affected by organ failure in their lives. Many people in need
of transplants die because of the scarcity and fear around the idea of organ
donation. The significant shortage of organs means people often spend their
lives in pain and waiting for transplants that could add value to their lives. All
persons with end-stage organ failure could be transplanted if we all donated
our organs after death or while living.
Unfortunately, many patients are unaware that they can donate their organs. The
lack of information around how to donate organs after one’s death and
misconception of violation around organ donation stops millions of families
from donating. Thus, raising public awareness of organ donation is critical and
Organ Donation Day aims to create awareness amongst common people on
how to safely donate organs.

5. About Organ
Donation
Organ donation is the process of surgically
removing an organ or tissue from one person (the
organ donor) and placing it into another person
(the recipient). Transplantation is necessary
because the recipient’s organ has failed or has
been damaged by disease or injury.
Organ transplantation is one of the great advances
in modern medicine. Unfortunately, the need for
organ donors is much greater than the number of
people who actually donate. Every day in the
United States, 21 people die waiting for an organ
and more than 107,380 men, women and children
await life-saving organ transplants.

6. Organ failure has been one of the leading morbidities,
with more lives lost in the pandemic and the past. Many
needy patients lose their lives because of the lack of
organ availability. One initiative can save up to eight
lives by donating hearts, kidneys, pancreas, lungs, livers,
intestines, hands, faces, tissues, bone marrow and stem
cells.

7. Thousands of
patients die every
day because of lack
of donor.

8. Types of Donation
Living
donation
Living donation offers another
choice for transplant candidates,
and it saves two lives: the
recipient and the next one on
the deceased organ waiting list.
Even better, kidney and liver
patients who are able to receive
a living donor transplant can
receive the best quality organ
much sooner, often in less than
a year.
Deceased organ, eye or tissue
donation is the process of
giving an organ (or a part of
an organ), eye, or tissue at the
time of the donor’s death, for
the purpose of transplantation
to another person. At the end
of your life, you can give life to
others.
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9. Types of donation :
Vascularized Composite
Allografts (VCAs) involve the
transplantation of multiple
structures that may include skin,
bone, muscles, blood vessels,
nerves and connective tissue.
The most commonly known type
of VCAs are for hand and face
transplants.
Pediatric transplants differ
slightly from other organ
donations — as organ size is
critical to a successful
transplant, children often
respond better to child-sized
organ.
VCA : Pediatric donation

10. The corneal transplant can restore sight (we
do not remove the eye, but the cornea which
is a membrane in front of the eyeball).
The pancreatic transplant makes
it possible to reduce or even
eliminate insulin treatment
Cornea Lung Tissue
Liver Intestines Pancreas
Organs and tissues for transplant
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11. Kidney. Middle ea
r.
eye.
Heart
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Organs and tissues for transplant
The kidney transplant allows the cessation of
dialysis and restores independent living.

12. Vascularized composite allografts (transplant
of several structures that may include skin, uterus, b
one,and bone marrow muscles, blood vessels,
nerves and connective tissue).
Organs and tissues for transplant

13. Organs that can be donated by
living donors
• One kidney
• One lung
• A part of the liver
• A part of the pancreas
• A part of the intestine
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14. Once
you’ve
done using
it, give it to
others.

15. more than 145,000 organs are
transplanted every year.
Appreciate that you’re living two living lives at once.

16. Organ Donation Statistics
people die each
day waiting for an organ
transplant.
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2010-2016, more than 70
organ transplant operations
were performed in Morocco,
the source of which was brain
dead.
1200potential
donors in Morocco

17. Organ donation is a process in which people agree to give a healthy organ
or tissue to a person who has a failing or damaged organ, and the organ
is then transplanted. Donations can be made by both living and
deceased people. A deceased person can give both kidneys, both lungs,
both hearts, both livers, both intestines, both pancreas, and tissues such
as heart valves, cornea, skin, bone/cartilage, and blood vessels.
This is done following the Transplant Human Organ Act (THOA) of 1994,
which covers all medico-legal aspects of organ/tissue transplantation and
makes the buying and sale of organs illegal.
The Organ Donation Process

18. Some Facts about Organ Donation
Organ donation is possible for anyone of any age,
caste, religion, or group.
Donating organs can be done at any age. Organ
donation is based on strict medical standards rather
than age.
Tissues like the cornea, heart valves, skin, and bone can
be donated after natural death, but essential organs like
the heart, liver, kidneys, intestines, lungs, and pancreas
can only be donated after “brain dead.”
Organs such as the heart, pancreas, liver, kidneys, and
lungs can be transplanted to patients whose organs are
failing, allowing many of them to return to a normal life.
To be a donor, anyone under the age of 18 must obtain
the permission of a parent or guardian.

19. Know that
Donating an organ is a noble and
altruistic act. By donating, you are
giving another person a few years
of life and happiness to them and
their family and loved ones. Anyone
can volunteer to be an organ
donor by filling out an authorized
organ and tissue donation form

20. Benefits
It’s free to become a
donor
Heal more than 75 lives through
tissue donation.
Restore sight for up to 2 lives
through eye donation; and
potentially heal up to 10
individuals through ocular tissue

21. Waiting for donation
One person can donate their heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, pancreas, and intestines for
organ transplantation. In addition to this, organ transplant facts uncover that cornea
donation could give two people the gift of sight back, and tissue donation could change
the lives of as many as 75 people in need.
1 donor for every 8 people

22. The Moroccan legislator established specific legal texts regarding the conditions for donating
human organs in 1998 under Law No. 16.98, which clearly frames the process of donating,
removing and transplanting human organs and tissues, which enhances the legal protection
of the donor from the risks of fraud and trafficking in human organs and tissues. However,
the donation law must be improved in order to formulate legislative proposals and introduce
new amendments to address the problems raised in a manner that serves the citizen's health
and achieves progress in this field.
With regard to donations from a deceased person, the law requires three main principles:
free donation, non-disclosure of any information that might allow identification of the donor
or beneficiary, and consent, meaning that the deceased donor must have expressed his
desire to donate during his lifetime, by registering in the donor register.
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Organ donation law in Morocco:

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