As always, the Run for New Life will have the form of a Nordic walking event, during which the symbolic distance will be covered by three-person relays. The relays will be made up primarily of persons who have gone through organ transplants as well as celebrities from the world of sport, music, film and theater who have been promoting the awareness about organ donation for many years. There will be also representatives of the partners supporting the initiative.

This year, the Run for New Life will be accompanied by a debate on the key problems of Polish transplantology, held for the first time. – We have decided to invite the authorities of Polish transplantation medicine, Ministry of Health representatives and, obviously, patients to take part in the discussion. We will be also joined by transplantation coordinators from all over Poland. It is important to talk about the challenges of Polish transplantology - says Arkadiusz Pilarz, Run for New Life director.

The debate is has been divided into five thematic blocks: the first one will be devoted to live organ donation, in the second block the discussion will focus on medicine and economy, in the third one, the guests will talk about coordination of transplantation, the fourth one will be devoted to the challenges faced by Polish transplantology and the fifth one will be attended by people of culture and sport, who will try to answer if it is worth engaging in social matters and how to use one’s image to help effectively. The guests will include, among others, Vice-Minister of Health Sławomir Gadomski, professor Roman Danielewicz – President of the Polish Transplantation Society and manager of the “Live kidney donor” program, Jarosław Czerwiński, PhD hab. – Medical Director in Poltransplant, professor Mariusz Kuśmierczyk of the National Cardiology Institute, and Director of the Gdańsk University Clinical Centre Jakub Kraszewski. In the studio we will also host Przemysław Saleta – the ambassador and co-creator of the Run for New Life. Viewers can watch the debate on transplantology and the Run for New Life via ONET.pl. The broadcast on the portal’s home page will start on 3 October at 11.30 am.