Yesterday was organ donation day in Germany. Here's a post from the German Health Economics Association (DGGÖ): Day of Organ Donation on June 3, 2023
"In Germany, there are about 8,500 people waiting for an organ donation (www.Bundesärztekammer.de). On the Day of Organ Donation, the German Society for Health Economics (dggö) wants to emphasize the urgency of increasing organ donation rates to improve the lives of these individuals. This applies equally to deceased organ donation and living donation. An international comparison also shows that there is room for improvement in Germany: Both in terms of living and deceased donations per million population, Germany lags behind in the EU (see Figure 1).
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"On Wednesday, May 31, 2023, Nobel laureate in economics and professor at Stanford University, Alvin Roth, spoke to a broad audience in the 6th virtual dggö Talk (see https://www.dggoe.de/aktuelles for details) about the possibilities of kidney exchange between compatible but previously unknown pairs and the implementation of cross-over donations and exchange chains in the US.
"Unlike in the US, in Germany, living donation outside of close family is only possible if a close relationship between the donor and recipient has been officially confirmed. Alvin Roth noted in the case of cross-over kidney donations, that it was very complicated for German hospitals to build up and prove a close relationship between two pairs of donors in front of a commission. This should be simplified, especially considering the overall strong support for kidney exchange among the German population. As Figure 2 from a survey conducted by Roth and Wang (2020) illustrates, 79% even agree to kidney exchange across borders and outside of family and friends, although such an exchange is currently not legally possible in Germany.
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