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Me in the operating room: What happens during a transplant?
2019 • E33 Sep 3, 2019 25m
The numbers are far apart. Last year around 10,000 patients needed a new organ. For some, a transplant was and is vital. But there were only 955 donors. The number of people willing to donate organs is continually decreasing. Politicians are currently discussing how the willingness to donate can be increased. CTRL_F reporter Milan Panek is part of the minority. At the age of 18, he got an organ donor card and marked “YES”. Around 10 years later he asks himself whether that was right? Can he trust the system? What speaks against it when so many are unwilling to get an ID card? Milan looks behind the scenes to understand how the organ donation system works in practice. How does it feel to wait for an organ? How does the organ get from the donor to the recipient? And is the donor really dead?