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Transplant rates vary from region to region

Although Switzerland in general has the worst organ donor record in Europe, there are regional differences, with demand for transplants being more successfully met in the French and Italian speaking parts.

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Swiss TV visited Lausanne’s University Hospital to find out more about the ‘Latin organ donor programme’ (PLDO) running in 17 hospitals in western and southern Switzerland.  (RTS/SRF/swissinfo.ch)

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Turning around the Swiss organ shortage

This content was published on The study, initiated by the Federal Health Office and overseen by the National Committee for Organ Donation (CNDO), was designed to evaluate factors that contribute to the low donation rate. And a partnership with Facebook has demonstrated that it is possible to motivate people to order donor cards. In 2011 the Federal Health Office launched…

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“Mommy, it’s Zurich! They have a heart for you!”

This content was published on Heart transplantation was in its infancy when Anne was a child in the 1960s, and diagnostic procedures that are standard today – such as echocardiography and sonograms – didn’t exist. In 1995, four years after the Swiss-American moved to Bern, she developed a problem with the rate and rhythm of her heart, and her extremities…

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