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Renal Transplant Program

The Renal Transplant Program in the Ottawa region would like to thank the generous donor families who, at a time of tremendous grief and loss, were able to consider the needs of others and consent to organ/tissue donation.

The Renal Transplant Program would also like to acknowledge the contribution of living kidney donors who willingly gave of themselves to help their loved ones. It is because of these selfless acts that many patients afflicted with kidney failure are now enjoying a new lease on life. We are indeed fortunate to be living in such a giving community.

The Organ and Tissue Donation program deserves our praise as well for its unrelenting support of donor families throughout this process.

Ottawa Region Highlights

• First Renal transplant in Ottawa: 1965
• First Living unrelated transplant: Jan. 17,1997
• Amalgamation of the renal transplant program: April 1998

The number of post-transplant patients followed at The Ottawa Hospital as of March 2003 was 444 recipients (General Campus and Civic Campus). In 1999 the Ottawa Hospital performed 54 kidney transplants making us one of the busiest Renal Transplant Centres in Ontario.