hague this is where coming as potential donor lives sixty two year old i met her in . the netherlands takes a liberal approach to living donors where deceased donors a concern to their only fourteen organs per one million inhabitants because as in germany express permission is required for organ removal and that is really available so many kidney patients hope for a living donor like annette. she read coming as appeal on facebook several months ago. i was just squatting on facebook like everyone else and then i ll hold the post for. it it spoke to me in my heart i can relate to her because i love her also. that was about it.
for the family it is now a matter of keeping their fingers crossed. six months later at a hospital in kona good the wait is finally over. after many setbacks lamont is about to have a transplant tests have shown that his facebook acquaintance really is suitable doctors plan to operate on lammas today. i don t have a big infection i m a bit tense but it s a healthy tension i know they re going to operate today the big question then will be when is the kidney going to function in your belt buckle down out hold on for hop off erica. a visit from the surgeon. professor stephan berger heads the kidney transplant department in going again and nephrologists from germany he takes a somewhat critical view of facebook donors but in general he thinks highly of the liberal approach to living donors in the netherlands. i mean if the when i see how
much better our situation is and through liberal structures how many hundreds or thousands of years of life are saved in comparison to germany i think it would be extremely useful if some things were changed in germany when the phenomenon of anonymous donors first came up in the netherlands some ten or twelve years ago transplantation centers were also cautious and were worried about the donors how would they feel about their decision afterwards in the meantime our inquiries have produced positive results but we are not yet certain about the situation with regard to facebook donors in good nevertheless dutch transplant patient centers have agreed on a standard facebook donors are now accepted but the search still does not receive active support. everything is now ready for lamb at. the surgeons have removed a kidney from a female donor and are now going to operate on him. the
netherlands altruistic strangers are also allowed to donate a kidney so would be recipients go in search of a donor themselves via facebook i put it on the door on facebook on sunday and by wednesday it was fifty five thousand. since nickel moscow a friesian village in northern holland. playing outdoors with his dog is one of the few things in life that lamb at home i can still enjoy usually he feels exhausted that s because his kidneys are failing his body is poisoning itself unless you receives a donor organ in the long run he will not survive. picking up his daughter from school it s. good to him lama one seven year old moderate to grow up as normally as
but unfortunately none of them were suitable so the search goes on human life on base. in holland it s estimated that around one hundred kidney patients have been searching for a donor in this way some successfully two dozen have now had a transplant which gives a lot of hope. fifty seven percent of the kidneys transplanted in holland come from living donors a record within the e.u. . that s because someone outside a patient s family could also donate an organ provided they do so alchemist tickly . four years ago erato care was the first to find a donor via facebook before then strangers had only been allowed to donate anonymously but kier got to know his donor that s the doctors used to find it impossible that a patient could pitch up and tell them what they had to do views have changed today you turn up at hospital with