Organ donation becomes the state affair
Last year the number of the organ donors lay in Germany on the highest conditions since beginning of the organ donation. The numbers for this year are less pleasing. 12,000 humans wait in Germany for a donor organ. Many humans die, because no organ can be arranged for them. The Federal Government wants to create remedy with a large action.
Berlin - “morning knew I not, comes the liver or comes death”, tells Peter Hellriegel. It is 44 years old, father of three children and it got before two years a donor organ. 12,000 humans are similarly as it before two years, it live with the uncertainty and wait for donor organs. Many of them will die. Either because they are taken aufrung their bad general state promptly by the waiting list or because it to for a long time for a donor organ to wait to have. In the Federal Republic only about 4000 donor organs are available.
Only each sixth has a donor document of identification
According to a current IPSOS inquiry two thirds of the Germans would be ready to donate after their dying organs but only each sixth actually possesses a donor document of identification. That is to now change. In October ten million donor documents of identification as supplement in the magazines “pharmacies Umschau” and “baby and family to be found will have”.
“That is one of the largest actions for the increase of the organ PEND readiness, which gave, says it in Germany so far” to federal health minister Ulla Schmidt. “More than four million humans visit daily one of the 21,500 pharmacies, which are with their niedrigschwelligem health offer an ideal place for prevention and health clearing-up”, add the president of the federal pharmacy chamber, Magdalene Linz.
Reasons for restraint are different
The reasons for the low donor numbers are different. On the one hand many potential donors felt not sufficiently enlightened, and on the other hand the readiness is too small on the part of the hospitals with the foundation to co-operate, says the executive committee of the foundation Organtransplantation (DSO), Thomas Beck. According to its data daily three humans die, because they waited in vain for donor organ.
