Current political aspects of transplantation medicine in Germany: Organ donation in contradiction?

Despite the claimed high organ donation willingness in Germany, the real numbers for organ donation are far below the international average. About 8000 patients in Germany are waiting for a transplant kidney, of which only a fraction, after years of waiting, can be treated with a suitable transplant. Further changes to the transplantation law to improve organ donation in Germany were recently adopted. However, it remains the demand for a reorganization of organ donation towards the opting out solution. The political decision on this is at the time of delivery of the article.