Ardahan Provincial Directorate of Health with Ardahan University was held in the “Organ Donation Panel” at the Âşık Şenlik Cultural Center on 12 November 2026. Fatma Koçak, Deputy Director of Ardahan State Hospital Health Care Services, Dr. Öğr. Member Tuğba Mert Emiroğlu, Dr. Öğr. Member Rain Increased and Dr. Öğr. In the program included by Mehtap Kılıç Yıldız, the aim was to pay attention to the importance of saving life of the organ donation and to strengthen the sharing of information about the transmission processes with donation. In this direction, the subject was addressed in the framework of health, law, religious responsibilities and patient experiences.
Dear Prof. Dr. Öztürk Emiroğlu expressed the historical development of organ transplant and perception of society. “Who is like saved all humanity if a life is saved,” our Rector reminded that the verse-of-the-going, highlighting the importance of life recovery, invites participants to be involved in organ donation. Following the opening, Ardahan Provincial Health Manager Dr. İshak Soldieroğlu, the Ardahan Provincial Director of Health, who realized the presentation of the “The Importance of Organan Donation”. From the 28 brain death cases detected across the province, Soldieroğlu called to emphasize the importance of empathy and social responsiveness and hope to patients waiting for the organ. The conversation was completed with words “Do you want to give life once a problem to your police.”
Erzurum Organ and Tissue Transplant Regional Coordination Center. Dr. Abdullah Can stated that in the presentation titled “Organ Donation and Brain Death”, the number of donors from cadaver per million population, despite the fact that there are 152 licenses in Turkey, in 4,2 of the number of refugees, in developed countries, exceeded 50. Can emphasize that about 33 thousand patients expect the organ and lose their life of thousands of patients every year due to the failure of the donor, calls participants to be involved in organ donation via e-wallet. Arş from our University Faculty of Economics. See. Kader Karacan Yılmaz discussed the religious and legal dimensions of the subject with the presentation of the Organ Donation and Transport from the Perspective of “Islamic Law”.
In the part of the patient experiences of the panel, the patient of dialysis waiting for organ transplant due to kidney failure, shared the process of Mustafa Gök, who had kidney transplant with Songül Abant. These shares revealed the hope that the organ donation carries out for patients’ expectations and individuals waiting for transplant.
After the panel, the exhibitions prepared under the program were visited. Health Services Vocational High School Child Development Program Students Dr. Öğr. “A Donation, Thousands of Hope!” Organ Donation Awareness Materials Exhibition, which prepared under the Vehicle-Selection Development course in Education, at the Euphrates Helperel guidance. Dr. Öğr from Nursing Department of Health Sciences. The “A Right Awareness” Patient Rights Exhibition prepared in the Member Tuğba Mert Emiroğlu’s executioner contributed to the creation of consciousness on patient rights. Turkish Music Department of Fine Arts contributes to the program with music rest.
In the program that brings scientific information with patient experiences and educational materials, the message that the organ donation is a social solidarity and responsibility that offers life expectation to the expected patients. The prevalence of the right knowledge-based donation awareness was highlighted in turning this hope into new lives.