Despite high costs

Number of body donors for Graz Anatomy on the rise

Only thanks to body donations is it possible to teach on real specimens. (symbolic image)

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Donating one's own body for the purpose of medical training is now very expensive. One of the reasons for this is that not all donations can be used. Why is the willingness to donate still increasing? Professor Niels Hammer provides information.

"Body donations are the guarantee for good medical training," Niels Hammer sums it up. As Head of the Department of Macroscopic and Clinical Anatomy at the Medical University of Graz, he is grateful for every single person who makes their body available to medical students. And he says: "We are definitely privileged in terms of the number of donors."