Saudi Gazette report
TAIF — In a exceptional show of sacrifice and compassion, a Saudi girl in Taif donated 80 p.c of her liver to her husband’s second spouse, ending her lengthy battle with kidney failure.
Noura Salem Al-Shammari, the primary spouse of Majed Baldah Al-Roqi, stepped ahead to assist her co-wife, Taghreed Awadh Al-Saadi, after seeing her endure from years of dialysis.
The act has been hailed domestically as a unprecedented gesture of selflessness.
Al-Roqi advised Okaz that his spouse Taghreed had endured kidney failure for years and had traveled to america for a 12 months in quest of therapy, however with out success.
Upon her return to the Kingdom, Al-Roqi determined to donate one in every of his kidneys to ease her struggling.
“I entrusted Um Turki [Noura] with our 5 youngsters in case something occurred to me throughout surgical procedure,” he recalled.
“However I used to be stunned when she introduced she would donate 80 p.c of her liver to Taghreed, purely for the sake of God.”
The transplant surgical procedure was profitable after medical assessments confirmed tissue compatibility.
“She got here like rain to revive barren desert,” Al-Roqi mentioned of his first spouse’s life-saving present.