It used to Green Energy Solutions into resource to. Create interactive content teaching the next generation about Environmental Protection and were determined to build something here for the next generation. Years multimedia environment series t. W. Hello and a warm welcome to Focus On Europe im so me so much gonna donating organs can save lives so why does it happen so rarely in Europe Germany is facing an acute shortage more than ten thousand critically ill patients here are waiting for a life saving kidney liver long or heart transplant many will never live to get one every eight hours a patient dies because he or she didnt receive an organ in time. Now the system
behind Organ Donation and transplants in germany is complex and bureaucratic you have to volunteer to be an organ donor here and not enough people sign up now in spain on the other hand youre automatically a donor unless you opt out and spanish hospitals Work Together quickly and efficiently to get available organs to thos
come here for transplants then this will have to be stopped and that s the only thing that makes sense. transplant tourism is technically banned in the e.u. but it s also difficult to control many kidney transplants are carried out at the university hospital empowerment of new york. the senior consultant here has operated on many germans he treats anybody with a neat it s not his job to determine whether a foreigner actually lives in spain or just pretends to do so in order to benefit from this system. there s freedom of movement in the e.u. so it s hard to distinguish. your forty s have to ensure there is order. and why they have to set clear rules. and. the pressure is rising. now the national transplant organization at the spanish health ministry has developed new criteria for foreign patients. in the future only