Pandemic backlogs put life at risk, says Winnipeg man waiting for kidney, heart transplants
'9 months worth of delays and my heart failed,' says Matthew Laferriere, scheduled for transplant in 2020
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This article was published 20/12/2021 (1704 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Stacks of cardboard boxes line the wall of a spare room in Matthew Laferriere’s bungalow in Winnipeg’s Windsor Park neighbourhood.
Each night, the 33-year-old takes a plastic bag of fluid from one of the boxes and loads it into his home dialysis machine.
After nearly six years of using the life-saving device, Laferriere’s wait for a kidney transplant was set to end in 2020. He’d found a living donor, been cleared for the procedure and only needed the hospital to schedule the operation.
Then the COVID-19 pandemic hit.
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