Famous Dutch on the phone during a recruitment campaign for organ donors in 2012. The attention for donation leads to more donations. Photo ANP / Lex van Lieshout
Never before have so many Dutch donate organs after their death as last year. Fewer than 271 people donated in 2014 one or more organs after they were deceased, as did the Dutch Transplant Foundation (NTS) today announced provisional annual figures. They thus helped 782 people to a new body.
The number of transplanted organs is thus 11 percent higher than in 2013, according to the foundation. According to the NTS has in recent years been a “rising trend” which among other things is due to the attention to the importance of transplants. The way in which organ donation in hospitals is organized helps.
Not only the number of transplants after death has increased last year. Dutch last year also more common in life donated an organ, according to the NTS. In 2014 533 organs were donated by living people, 11 more than a year earlier. It involves, for example a kidney or part of the liver
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