Lack of B.C. transplant surgeons means donated kidneys sent elsewhere
Sukinder Mangat has been waiting 11 years for a kidney transplant while enduring dialysis three times a week as part of a routine that leaves him exhausted, worried and unable to work.
BC Transplant, the provincial agency responsible for organ transplants, said 56 kidneys were sent elsewhere last year. “We have fewer surgeons doing the volume of work we’re doing than other jurisdictions,” said Harriman, adding that kidney donations have risen while the number of transplant surgeons has not changed in B.C.The B.C. Health Ministry said the province had six kidney transplant surgeons in 2018.
Doctors of BC, the province’s medical association, echoed Harriman’s concerns. It said each of the four B.C. surgeons does more transplants and works on call more often than their colleagues elsewhere in Canada.
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