Organ donation

Danish Liberal MEP Karin Riis-Jørgensen handed last week over a list with 1,500 signatures to Health Minister Jakob Axel Nielsen. The petition is calling for change of the current organ donation system. The aim is to have an assumed consent principle for organ donation with a voluntary opt out possibility. The rational is to increase the donation rate. Denmark have today 11.5 deceased donors per million, compared to 33.8 donors per million in Spain.

Karin Riis-Jørgensen donated a kidney to her 18-year-old son in 2001.