It's Donor Week. For a week, various organizations are calling on Dutch people to become donors. Because they are desperately needed.
The Donor Week is part of the campaign 'The Netherlands Says Yes' † Together with the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport, the health funds and the Transplantation Nu Foundation, the Dutch Transplantation Foundation (NTS) is committed to stimulate more people with this national campaign. to register in the Donor Register.
Donor Register
Now there are more than three million Dutch registered, but it is important that everyone records his or her choice. That not only saves the next of kin a difficult choice Your organs can save other people's lives.
Every year, more than 600 transplants are made in the Netherlands place with organs from a deceased donor. Yet the Netherlands needs more donors Because right now 862 people are waiting for a new kidney, 115 for a new liver, 206 for a new lung and 67 people waiting for a new heart. In 2009, 135 patients on the waiting list died.
You can also be a living donor. Every year, Dutch hospitals also carry out about 400 transplants with an organ from a living person from. A healthy person can donate a kidney or part of the liver.
Dutch Transplantation Foundation
The Dutch Transplantation Foundation (NTS) aims to increase the number of organ and tissue transplants and thus improve transplantation results.
In addition, the NTS focuses on the hospitals where the donor recruitment takes place, the foundation provides training to medical professionals in order to be able to ask the donation question in the right way.
In short:registration is important. More info? Look at www.donorweek.nl .
