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Are you already a lifeguard?

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Switzerland lacks organs. It’s time to think about organ donation, writes SonntagsBlick editor Peter Ashlimann.
Peter AshlimannSunday view of the editor of the Federal House of Representatives

There are better things to do than contemplate your death on a Sunday. And yet you must do it.

Currently, about 1,500 people are waiting for a life-saving organ, and often in vain. Never before have so many patients died on the waiting list as last year. There are too few donors in Switzerland. In Spain, for example, the organ donation rate is more than twice that of that country.

This can affect each of us. An unhealthy lifestyle is not always the cause of organ failure. An autoimmune disease, for example, can appear suddenly. If the liver or kidneys are so badly damaged that a transplant is inevitable, there is a long wait for those affected.

Time that the victims do not have

Last May, Switzerland approved an extended decision on objection by a clear majority. In the future, we should all mark on the registry whether we want to be organ donors after our death – or not. This decision could lead to more transplants and save more lives. However, according to the Federal Public Health Administration, a decision on the objection will not be implemented until 2025. A time that many of those in line don’t have.

You can act today. By ordering an organ donation card from Swisstransplant. Or at least think about it a little – especially on Sunday.

Source: Blick

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