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Organ donation is a noble, voluntary act. It is a gesture of solidarity, a sign of humanity, trust and inner peace when we openly confront our own death and our attitude towards others. By donating, we enable someone to receive medical treatment with an organ transplant.
In Slovenia, organ donation is not permitted without consent. People have the right to make an autonomous and voluntary decision about organ donation.
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Transplantation treatment is an established, successful and often the only medical treatment for many diseases. In Slovenia, patients have access to top-quality treatment. They can rely on world class experts for the procedures from donation to transplantation.
Yet transplantation treatment is not feasible without voluntary organ donation. Anyone might become seriously ill and need an organ transplant. A thought-provoking fact is, that statistically we are three times more likely to need organ transplantation than to become an organ donor after our death. An unknown donor can save our lives or those of our loved ones.
A person can save 9 lives by donating organs after their death.
In Slovenia, 85% of people are in favour of donation in principle. Only about 1.5% of the population is declared in the donor register.
In Slovenia, around 110 organ transplants and 120 corneal transplants are performed annually at the UMC Ljubljana.
Slovenia is among the best in terms of the number of heart transplants per million inhabitants
Around 85% of relatives of deceased consent for donation.
Every hour, around 5 new patients are added to the waiting list.
13,498 patients were on the joint waiting list of the Eurotransplant countries (as of 31 December 2023).
Ljudje smo telesna, čuteča in duhovna bitja. Življenje ob in po smrti si zamišljamo in razumemo na različne načine. Vsa večja verstva sveta podpirajo in spodbujajo prostovoljno darovanje organov, ki je plemenito dejanje in najvišja oblika ljubezni do sočloveka. Preberi stališča večjih verskih skupnosti v Sloveniji.
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Slovenia-transplant is a public, non-profit Institute and national competent authority in the field of organ and tissue donation and transplantation. We provide organisational, professional, and coordination support for organ donation and transplantation procedures at both national and international levels, with the aim of ensuring timely and appropriate transplantation treatment for patients. We are the custodians of the national registry of post-mortem organ donation. We act professionally, ethically, and humanely.
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