2023-05-24 01:31:26
Created in 2009, this program connects provincial health systems and national living donor programs.
It matches living donors with people waiting for a kidney transplant. Donors can help someone they know or a stranger.
The longest route for a donor to donate a kidney was from Corner Brook, Newfoundland, to Vancouver.
In British Columbia, 279 transplants have been performed since the program’s inception, says Dr. Jagbir Gill, physician at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver.
Some patients had been on the waiting list for more than three years, waiting for a living donor
he adds.
I wouldn’t be here today if I mightn’t have had this gift
points out Donovan Hanlon, who has had two transplants in his life.
Her cousin, Mike Sole, wanted to be her donor, but the two men were not compatible. The program allowed Mike to donate one of his kidneys to another waiting person and helped Donovan find the right person for his second transplant.
According to Canadian Blood Services, more than 4,000 people in Canada are waiting for an organ and 75% of them need a kidney.
Hundreds die every year while waiting.
A transplanted kidney remains functional for an average of 21 years when it comes from a living donor and 11 years when it comes from a deceased donor.
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