2023-09-06 10:15:04
– Five days of organ donation awareness
The HUG are organizing several events in September to raise public awareness of the importance of expressing their decision to be a donor or not.
Posted today at 12:15 p.m.
Switzerland has relatively few organ donors in international comparison (illustrative image).
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Would you like to donate your organs or tissues after your death? Whether the answer is yes or no, let us know! This is the message that the University Hospitals of Geneva (HUG) will send throughout the month of September. On the occasion of National Organ and Tissue Donation Day, which will take place on September 9, the medical institution is setting up several information stands for the public.
In their press release, the HUG recall that Switzerland is a “bad student” in terms of organ donation. With only 19 deceased donors per million inhabitants, the country is behind France, which has 25, or Spain and its 41 donors.
At the end of the second quarter of 2023, nearly 1,388 people were waiting for an organ transplant on Swiss soil. The year 2022 will have been marked by the death of 83 people who did not receive an organ in time.
While the new law on transplantation involving presumed consent was accepted by the people in May 2022, it will not come into force until 2025 at the earliest. And will not remove the obligation to seek the opinion of the relatives of the deceased.
It is therefore important that everyone makes their wishes known to their loved ones before their death. And this, in order to avoid the risk that they position themselves against the donation of organs “for fear of not respecting a will that they ignore”, specifies the press release from the HUG.
Five stalls
Writing down your wishes is also a measure recommended by Swisstransplant. It is possible to do this via advance directives, the electronic patient file or even with a donor card. For those interested, it will be possible to do so at the five information stands set up in September.
These will be held on September 12 at the main entrance of the HUG, on September 13 at the Children’s Hospital, on September 14 at the cafeteria of the Trois-Chêne Hospital, on September 19 at the Bellerive Hospital and finally on September 21 in the reception hall of the Gustave Julliard building. Timetables and additional information are available at the HUG website.
Léa Frischknecht is a PR journalist for the Geneva section. After a bachelor’s degree in political science at the University of Geneva, she obtained her master’s degree at the Media and Journalism Academy of the University of Neuchâtel.More info
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