Don't take your organs to the grave

Life after death
Germans will be reminded about transplantation

Adele Kalinichenko, Novye IzvestiaRecently, the Bundestag approved a new law on organ transplantation, the debate on which in the German parliament lasted for several years.

Now the hospital insurance funds will inform their clients over the age of 16 about the problem of organ transplantation every two years and ask them to write a statement that in the event of their death they agree to donate their own organs to a person in need of transplantation.

The decision of everyone who responds to the call of doctors will be recorded on individual electronic health insurance cards and entered into the database. When the correspondent of "NI" asked her eighteen-year-old daughter what she thought about the new law, in response, the girl took out of her purse a card filled out with her own hand "Organspeneausweis", where the line was marked with a cross: "Yes, I confirm that in the event of a medically established fact of my death, my internal organs and tissues can be taken for transplants". At the top above the name, surname and date of birth – the coat of arms of Germany and a link to the paragraph of the law on organ transplantation.

People can take such cards to fill out not only in medical institutions, but even in cinemas, museums and other public places, and after filling them out, they can always carry with them along with any identity document. People are being urged more and more persistently not to stay away from the problem: posters at bus stops "Give life", television programs, interviews with rescued people – everything is aimed at making people think and connect to a humane action. After all, about 12 thousand patients are currently on the waiting list for donor organs in Germany, and only three out of seven people who need organ transplants get such an opportunity. And many die without waiting for salvation.

"We are going to really push people, ask and ask them again," Frank–Walter Steinmeier, the head of the SPD faction, told reporters. The leader of the Social Democrats in the Bundestag was one of the initiators of the adoption of the new law. The problem of the shortage of donor organs affected him personally. In August 2010, Steinmeier donated a kidney to his wife, who urgently needed surgery.

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