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HUFFINGTON POST CANADA | Joshua Ostrogoths

Parents of baby needing heart transplant wait with their child in hospital. (Photo: CBC)
Organ donation in Canada is in a state of crisis. Only 25 per cent of Canadians have registered to donate our organs, even though 90 per cent support the idea.

It's one of the lowest sign-up rates in the industrialized world.

Every day, one in four Canadians that need lung transplants die, and four on the kidney wait list die.

Altogether, around 250 people die each year while they wait for an organ transplant.

Those are the statistics, but up until now that's mostly all we've had. "Vital Bonds," a "Nature of Things" documentary, changes all that. Continue reading
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