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Download an organ donor card now and tell your family you want to be an organ donor.
Find out why we need more donors and why others have chosen to sign their donor cards
Learn more about becoming a living kidney donor
View our PowerPoint presentation for more information to help you decide if being a living kidney donor is right for you.
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News
What would it be like to live with someone else's heart? Meet a Winnipeg man who tells CBC Radio about the moment he heard he would get a new heart and what life has been like since his transplant. Then hear from a Winnipeg woman who found a way to turn a tragedy around after her husband died suddenly by helping to save three lives through the donation of some of her husband's organs. Listen here.
Canada celebrates its 100th successful kidney transplant with the living donor paired exchange registry
In November Canada's ground-breaking Living Donor Paired Exchange (LDPE) kidney transplant registry reached another significant milestone with the completion of its 100th successful transplant.
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The David Foster Foundation has created the Days In Wait website to promote the real stories behind organ donation and transplantation. Hopeful recipients, past recipients and close family members can share their stories, needs, struggles and aspirations with the larger Canadian population. Please visit the site and add your transplant or organ donation story.
Manitoba Education in
partnership and collaboration
with the Transplant Manitoba – Gift of Life Program and
the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority is pleased to provide this learning resource to support Senior Years biology teachers
and their students as they examine current issues and
the human biology associated with organ donation and transplantation.
Download a copy of "Life is a Gift"
PLEASE NOTE: This is a large PDF file
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