While data is limited, a 2016 informal audit found Indigenous people made up 50 per cent of people in the province with kidney disease but only 15 per cent of those who receive a transplant.
Read Full Story...“After Michael Coyle’s doctor told him to start asking family and friends to get tested to be a potential kidney donor he heard from dozens of people who wanted to help.”
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Read Full Story...“It can be painfully difficult watching all of your friends out doing ‘normal’ things for a young person while you’re sat at home making up your medications, picking up prescriptions and always attending appointments,” admitted Yasmin.”
Read Full Story...“There was a man who needed a kidney. His wife wanted to give to him, but she wasn’t a match. But since I was a match, I could give to him. And since she was willing, she ended up giving to a woman who had been waiting for nine years on the deceased donor list”
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