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 The Deutsche Stiftung Organtransplantation has been actively engaged in developing transplant medicine in Germany for almost 20 years by promoting organ donation. It was founded by the Kuratorium für Dialyse und
Nierentransplantation e.V. (KfH, Trusteeship for Dialysis and Kidney Transplantation) in Neu-Isenburg on October 7, 1984.
Section 11 of the German Transplant Law which has been in force since 1997 provides for the establishment of a central institution responsible for coordinating the initiation and performance of organ donation all over
Germany. The function of organ procurement agency was assigned to the DSO on July 27, 2000. The tasks of this agency are laid down in an agreement with the Federal Medical Council, the head organisations of the health
insurers and the German Hospital Society.
The DSO organises and manages the cooperation of some 1400 hospitals and about 50 transplant centres in Germany – which are the most important partners of the DSO.
The main tasks of the organ procurement agency are:
- to promote and organise the joint task of organ donation,
- to advise hospitals about the medical and organisational aspects of organ donation,
- to assist hospitals in establishing the diagnosis of brain death,
- to support the relatives of organ donors,
- to maintain organ function in donors by appropriate intensive care measures,
- to transmit the data of organ donors to the organ allocation agency, Eurotransplant, in the Netherlands,
- to organise organ removal and transport of the organs to recipients
and to provide open information and raise public awareness of organ donation – in the name of the patients on the waiting list for a transplant.
Each donor region is assigned a regional advisory board consisting of representatives of the regional transplant centres, the State Medical Council, the legal health insurers, the regional hospitals and a representative of the respective federal states.
At the national level, the DSO is supported by the federal advisory board. Members of the latter are representatives of the contracting partners, of the regional advisory boards, of the federal states, of the German Transplant Association and of the international organ allocation agency, Eurotransplant, in the Netherlands.
The advisory boards support the medical and organisational work of the DSO and provide counselling and assistance in performing its contractual and legal obligations. The members of the advisory boards represent all important institutions in the health care sector and are thus instrumental in improving the situation of
organ donation.
The DSO is an incorporated foundation according to civil law.
The board of trustees of the DSO has seven members who work for the foundation on an honorary basis. They
appoint and dismiss the members of the board of directors and supervise the annual accounts.
In its capacity as the organ procurement agency, the DSO is funded by a budget that is negotiated with the health insurers and is based on the number of organs transplanted. The expenses incurred by the hospitals and transplant centres involved in an organ donation are reimbursed by the DSO in the form of flat rates.
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