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Event for prospective teachers on Organ Donation Day on June 1

"Right. Important. Vital" is the motto of the nationwide Organ Donation Day on June 1. A training day and a survey of students took place at the University of Education in advance.

Four people stand near an information board outdoors, engaged in discussion. Two women and two men are present, with one woman pointing at the board. Informational banners are visible in the background, promoting future opportunities. The setting appears to be part of a community or organizational event.

From left: Dr. Uschi Traub (Head of Health Promotion), Günter Wanner, who has a liver transplant, and Carola Benkert (Health Department). Picture: Josef Theiss.

2019 is a special year for organ donation and transplantation in Germany: the new law to improve cooperation and structures in organ donation has just come into force, and there is a broad social debate about a possible new legal regulation on the decision to donate organs. In the run-up to Organ Donation Day, the Health Department of the Ludwigsburg District Office, together with the German Liver Transplant Patients Association and the German Organ Transplantation Foundation (DSO), took part in the debate with a training day at the University of Education (PH) and a survey of students.

Dr. Christina Schleicher, Managing Director of the DSO Baden-Württemberg region, Dr. Wolfgang Bettolo, Transplantation Officer at Stuttgart Hospital, Jutta Riemer, member of the Standing Commission on Organ Transplantation of the German Medical Association, and Dr. Uschi Traub, Head of Health Promotion at the District Office, informed 150 students about organ transplantation and donation at a lecture event. Günter Wanner, who has had a liver transplant for 15 months, described the situation of a waiting patient and life with a foreign organ.

In three workshops, Jutta Riemer, Josef Theiss and Dr. Uschi Traub presented teaching methods and materials, the organ donor card and the topic of organ trafficking.

In a survey of students, all respondents would accept an organ and donate organs. More than 79 percent have a donor card (only 32 percent in Germany). More than 81 percent are in favor of the opt-out solution proposed by Health Minister Jens Spahn. Despite the great popularity, one in four people are afraid that people with an organ donor card will be declared brain dead more quickly.

The aim of Organ Donation Day is to thank and educate people and at the same time highlight the importance of the decision. A decision that many of us are always happy to postpone - at least until it affects us personally.

If you have any questions about organ donation, please contact: Dr. Uschi Traub, Tel. 07141 144-2020, Mail: gesundheitsfoerderung[at]landkreis-ludwigsburg.de.

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