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Teen finds kidney donor after long search during pandemic
“There are 1,600 people in Ontario waiting for a medically urgent life-saving transplant,” said Ronnie Gavsie, CEO of the Trillium Gift of Life Network. The province’s organ and tissue donation agency said COVID-19 could be the reason why donations have been so low.”
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Five-year-old Sudbury girl with rare condition searches for a kidney donor
“Many living donor programs across the country were put on hold due to COVID, but recently they’ve been trying to catch up on the backlog of transplant operations. A young girl in the Sudbury area was born with a rare disease and is now in need of a kidney.”
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In need of kidney transplant, woman took to Facebook – and heard from a former classmate
“Marci McIntyre and Ray Hacker met in the 4th grade, but little did they know that one day Ray would giving Marci a kidney.”
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Quebec City hospital suspends kidney transplants after patients test positive for COVID-19
Another reality of living with kidney disease and waiting for a life-saving transplant.
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Her Last Project
Her Last Project is the extraordinary story of Dr. Shelly Sarwal, a physician from Halifax. Diagnosed with the incurable disorder multiple system atrophy, Shelly chose to receive medical assistance in dying (MAID), legalized in 2016, and become an organ donor. As the first person in Nova Scotia to undergo this often complicated medical journey, she dedicated the short time she had left to educating health professionals and the general public about being in control of your death and creating a meaningful legacy through organ donation. It was Shelly’s wish to share her experience as a way to educate the public and the medical community about organ and tissue donation after MAID. Her Last Project is directed by Emmy-nominated Rosvita Dransfeld and produced by Canadian Blood Services, in partnership with Legacy of Life at the Nova Scotia Health Authority
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