Canadian Blood Services said nearly 150,000 Canadians registered to be donors in the two months after learning Humboldt Broncos player Logan Boulet had signed his donor card
Brandy Hehn was a regular in the kidney dialysis unit at the Regina General Hospital when the deadly Humboldt Broncos bus crash happened five years ago.
“She said, ‘Did you know one of the boys was an organ donor?’” Hehn recalled in an interview from Regina.Hehn was not on a recipient list at that time, but she said everyone in the room looked around and wondered if anyone they knew got their long-awaited kidney transplant. It led to Green Shirt Day every April 7, the anniversary of Boulet’s death, to promote organ donor awareness and registration across Canada.
“Hundreds of thousands of Canadians have registered their decisions about organ donation or had a conversation with people they love about how they feel about it.” She worked during the day, then went to the hospital in the evenings for several hours three times a week.Shemie, also an intensive care doctor at Montreal Children’s Hospital and McGill University, said thousands of Canadians are waiting for an organ transplant and hundreds die each year.
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