Organ donation

Source: BUS Rheinland-Pfalz

Organ donation can save lives. And it doesn't always just affect others. You yourself, your family or a good friend may suddenly be in need of a life-saving organ donation or tissue transplant. Be it due to a serious illness or an accident.

The MSAGD and its partner in the Initiative Organspende RLP (IO-RP) provide information on the topic so that people in Rhineland-Palatinate can learn more about organ donation and at the same time become open and sensitive to the issue.

Whatever you think about organ donation - make a decision. Carry an organ donor card with you, which clearly documents whether or not you wish to donate in an emergency. By the way: Your relatives will also be grateful if you make this decision for them.

Organ donation is a very personal decision and of course voluntary. It is regulated in detail and clearly in the Transplantation Act (TPG) of 1997 so that it cannot be abused.

You can obtain information and download an organ donor card from the

Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of Social Affairs, Labor, Health and Demography,
the Rhineland-Palatinate Organ Donation Initiative,
the Federal Center for Health Education,
the Federal Ministry of Health and
from the German Organ Transplantation Foundation.

Organ donation

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