Siegfried Richtsteig has been waiting in hospital for more than 130 days for a h...
BERLIN - Siegfried Richtsteig has been waiting in hospital for more than 130 days for a heart that would allow him to do the things he enjoyed most, like playing with his grandchildren, before a stroke damaged the organ beyond repair.
“I am already 64 and time is running out,” said Richtsteig, sitting in his hospital bed, connected to a small machine that keeps his heart beating. “It could then end up that I have waited for nothing.”The German parliament on Thursday voted against a proposal by Health Minister Jens Spahn that would have made it easier for authorities to collect organs of people who die in Germany, where only 36% have an organ donor pass.
Systems which effectively make being an organ donor the default have seen donation rates increase in some countries adopting them - although that increase is not universal.The Bundestag approved instead a proposal backed by Green and conservative lawmakers that seeks to encourage more Germans to become donors by creating a simplified national register for donations.
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