TAIF, Saudi Arabia (Kashmir English): A Saudi woman donated 80% of her liver to her husband’s second wife in a remarkable act of compassion, also ending the latter’s long struggle with kidney failure.
Saudi Gazette reported that Noura Salem Al-Shammari, the first wife of Majed Baldah Al-Roqi, decided to help her co-wife, Taghreed Awadh Al-Saadi, after witnessing her enduring years of dialysis.
The act has been hailed locally as an extraordinary display of selflessness.
Al-Roqi told Okaz newspaper that Taghreed had suffered kidney failure for years and even spent a year in the US for treatment but there was no recovery. After Taghreed returned to the Kingdom, Noura planned to donate one of her kidneys to her.
Kidney donation purely for the sake of God
“I entrusted Um Turki [Noura] with our five children in case anything happened to me during surgery,” he said. “But I was astonished when she announced she would donate 80 percent of her liver to Taghreed, purely for the sake of God.”
Medical tests confirmed tissue compatibility, and the transplant surgery was successful. “She came like rain to revive a barren desert,” Al-Roqi said, praising his first wife’s life-saving gift.
