Everybody agrees that organ transplantation is the best and often the only treatment of end stage organ failure. Although, the living can sometimes participate, no organ procurement program is self-sufficient without deceased donation.

Organ procurement involves a chain of closely linked steps and we have faced challenges at every single step. One of these steps - the family consent- is heavily influenced by the religious taboos as they can affect the performance of both the family and the health professionals.

To improve the technical steps, we have resorted to numerous comprehensive courses to train the health professionals but we have at the same time attempted to sensitize the public and did our best to eliminate the religious taboos.