Disign of Turkish organ transplantation network and simulation model

SUMMARY DISIGN OF TURKISH ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION NETWORK AND SIMULATION MODEL Key words: Organ transplantation, organ allocation policy, web base applications, wide area computer network, simulation model. Organ transplantation is a treatment of illnesses, which can not be treated with traditional methods. With this treatment, many patients who come to the end of their life as a result of organ insufficiency, are got back their health, quality of life and life span. Organ transplantation is required multi linked-operations. They are; in order, removing an organ from the donor, evaluation the organ, to find appropriate patient for the organ, bringing patient or organ to transplantation centre, making transplantation operation and monitoring the patient. Today in many countries and Turkey, there are two main problems to use of organ transplantation as a treatment. One of the problems, there is no enough donor resource for the waiting patients. The second problem, this limited source is not distributed equitably to the waiting patients. In Turkey, the organ donations and transplantation relating laws were prepared, but until this time a system could not establishment for the co-ordination of the donations and the transplantation centres. Although the waiting list of the organ transplantation is increased day by day, the number of the transplantation operations are low, because of that some patients may loose their life during the waiting for organ transplantation. To solve this problem depends on active using of the cadaver organ sources. To active use of donor sources, it needs better co-ordinations between the organ resource with the transplantation centres.