Organ Donation Day 2022, June 4, 2022
The Patient Advisory Board of the Transplant Centre is committed to
Organ shortage in Germany
Patient Advisory Council urges implementation of six measures
The Patient Advisory Council of the MHH Transplant Centre has taken Organ Donation Day and the dramatic developments in organ donation as an opportunity to send an open letter to the Federal Government Commissioner for Patients, Stefan Schwartze, asking for his support.
The six members of the Advisory Board are calling for the implementation of "Six Action Points for Organ Donation" , some of which have already been enshrined in law, including the appointment of active transplantation officers and comprehensive public information. Better legal protection for living donation is also called for.
CORRECT. IMPORTANT. VITALLY IMPORTANT.
Juliane Brauner, Member of the Patient Advisory Board of the MHH Transplant Centre
At the age of 9, I had a kidney transplant at the MHH. That was a stroke of luck for me.
I believe that everyone should find a point of view on the subject of organ donation. You should tell your relatives about your decision - no matter what it is.
Don't take your organs to heaven.
Heaven knows we need them here.
Organ donation: Joy and sorrow are so close together
Kerstin Ronnenberg, Member of the Patient Advisory Board of the MHH Transplant Centre
It's been almost 23 years since I filled out my organ donor card. There was this good feeling of being able to do something useful even after my death. Why waste my organs when others could still use them?
At the time, however, I didn't expect that I myself would one day be in the position of needing a new lung. The hope and fear as I struggled through life every day, waiting for THE redemptive call: "We have a suitable lung for you!"
And yet the joys and sorrows of organ donation are so close together: someone has died, while I can rejoice that a suitable organ has been found for me.
My donor will always be my personal hero! Because he/she or their relatives have chosen an act of charity. An act of charity that has already given me four more years of life. And I will do everything I can, my hero, to ensure that many more will follow!
Our son Tom is alive thanks to an organ donation
Stefanie Bartel, Member of the Patient Advisory Board of the MHH Transplant Centre
Tom received a donor lung transplant at the age of 2.5.
It's hard to put into words what organ donation means to us as a family. We are infinitely grateful for this precious gift!
We would like to encourage and call on everyone to consider the topic of organ donation, to talk to their relatives about it and to make a decision.