08May/19

Expert say N.B. family’s inability to donate dead son’s organs illustrate gap in system – Global News

Expert say N.B. family’s inability to donate dead son’s organs illustrate gap in system  Global News

An expert says the story of a New Brunswick teen who died in a car crash last month is exposing the gaps in Canada’s organ donation system. David Hartell of the Canadian Donation and Transplantation Research Program says an estimated 4,000 Canadians who die each year have the potential to become organ donors, but only about 800 end up doing so. READ: 4 teenagers killed in single-vehicle crash in Miramichi, N.B. He says the case of 16-year-old Avery Astle highlights the sad reality that even families who want to be donors sometimes aren’t given the chance due to a lack of hospital resources,…