Toronto hospital network to require organ transplant patients to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19
CTV
Canada’s largest transplant centre has enacted a precedent-setting policy requiring that patients be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to be considered for a life-saving organ transplant.
The decision – one carefully debated by doctors at Toronto’s University Health Network (UHN) – affects some 4,300 Canadians waiting for a donor organ to become available, as well as those who come after them.
“From a medical point of view, we all felt quite strongly that this was needed. So, we've been having a lot of discussion on how best to formulate this policy,” Dr. Atul Humar, director of UHN’s Ajmera Transplant Centre, told CTV National News.
“It was actually a very complex discussion. We had ethical input; we had input from medical leaders and experts in the field.”
Organ transplant recipients face unique risks posed by COVID-19.
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