An organ transplant scandal, involving data manipulation to have patients jump the long waiting lists for organs, has shocked Germany. The German public TV program ARD Tagesthemen wants to know how the Dutch, also part of the Eurotransplant area, are treating waiting lists and organs.
A liver specialist and a liver surgeon from the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam explain how their transplant department handles the waiting lists and the organ that are offered to the hospital. It turns out that the main difference with the German approach, seems to be the less hierarchical way the Dutch are working.
Weekly a team of minimum ten transplant team members discuss the patients that will get or just got a transplant organ, and obviously the organ waiting list. The director of the Dutch kidney patients association gives his view on the German scandal and on the Dutch situation.
For this background reportage Featurez gave advice, did the research, set-up and planning of the filming, booked a camera crew, organised a satellite feed point, did the direction and interviewing and accompanied the satellite feed.