They face financial ruin to get a new lung. Some are choosing to die instead - News Summed Up

They face financial ruin to get a new lung. Some are choosing to die instead


The lung transplant team at Toronto General Hospital performs the surgery on about two dozen Atlantic Canadians a year. While Jarvis desperately wanted a lung transplant, the stress on her family financially was becoming too much. Bill Nehiley, a double-lung transplant recipient from Halifax, gets his one-year checkup at the Halifax transplant satellite clinic with Erin McAndrew, a registered respiratory therapist. Without a lung transplant, her patients will likely die within a year. I believe that you can be a great lung transplant patient.


Source: CBC News March 13, 2019 09:00 UTC



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