A Medicine Hat family is encouraging people to become organ donors
MEDICINE HAT – One in 10 Canadians is living with kidney disease, according to the Kidney Foundation of Canada.
In 2016, 747 Albertans were on the organ transplant wait list, 45 of them died waiting.
John Boksteyn is one of the people on the waitlist for a kidney transplant. He has polycystic kidney disease. It’s hereditary, as his mother and his brothers all have the condition.