Patients who have received organ transplants stated that they had great difficulties in finding a hospital for treatment."Shouldn't these organs survive?" he rebelled.
Organ transplant patients, who must be under the supervision of a doctor throughout their lives in order to keep the organs that keep them alive, have great difficulty in finding a hospital where they can be followed up one year after the transplant. Patients ask, "Shouldn't our organs survive?" Organ Transplantation and Dialysis Solidarity Association Pınar Dülger, speaking to the Science and Health News Agency, said that the problem is vital.
Organ Transplantation and Dialysis Solidarity Association carries out important work on organ donation and organ transplantation.Transplant Patients Cannot Find a Hospital for Treatment in the 2nd Year of the Transplant, There is a Private Hospital Asking for 13 Thousand per Night
Dülger said, “I had a kidney transplant surgery in a chain hospital in Istanbul. In the first year, they only received examination fees and did not receive payment for inpatient treatment. However, in the second year (2016) they started to charge a nightly stay fee. Unfortunately, hospitals currently performing transplant surgery demand hospitalization and examination fees from organ transplant patients in the second year of transplantation. “Transplant patients have difficulty paying treatment fees that reach 10-13 thousand TL per night.”
They Have No Legal Rights to Receive Differences or Contributions
“Legally, organ transplant and cancer patients are not required to pay any co-payment in private hospitals. Due to these fees charged by private hospitals, patients who receive organ transplants face the risk of losing their organs because their treatment is disrupted or delayed. Because they are trying to find the treatment center by going from hospital to hospital.”
University and public hospitals say, “We cannot care for patients without transferring them.”
“Some university and public hospitals turn patients away by saying, "We do not care for patients we have not transferred." “We expect the Ministry of Health and the Social Security Institution to find a solution to this problem that puts the lives of transplant patients at risk.”
Patients Have to Turn to the Private Sector Due to Problems Encountered During Organ Donation and Transplant Surgery Processes
"The very low number of organ donations and brain death notifications in Turkey, the lack of sufficient expert staff to carry out the pre-transplant, transplant and post-transplant processes in many universities and state hospitals, and the problems in living-to-living transplant processes push patients waiting for organs to undergo transplantation in private hospitals. And after this, patients' follow-up problems begin.
