Series: Life on the Waiting List (Swiss Press Video 2014, by Jonas Keller) - Swiss Press Award
Tele M1
Jonas Keller
Over 1,200 people are waiting for a donor organ. Never before has the waiting list in Switzerland been so long! In this TV documentary, we reveal the stories behind it. Part 1: For Dominique Diethelm, it's a matter of life and death. If she doesn't get a donor liver, the 22-year-old will die. Part 2: Andreas and Beatrice Heller are faced with the most difficult question of their lives. To donate or not? This after the sudden death of their 16-year-old son. Part 3: Exclusive insight into an organ transplant. In Part 3, we take you into the operating room. Watch as a liver is removed and implanted into a patient. Part 4: 27 years ago, the doctors gave Erna Strähl only a few months to live. But the young woman fought for her life. A short time later, she was one of the first in Switzerland to receive a life-saving donor liver. Today, she is the oldest transplant recipient in Switzerland.