uOttawa Heart Institute celebrating 40 years of its first heart transplant

Dr. Hadi Toeg is an Ottawa native, and cardiac surgeon. He's also the surgical director of Heart Transplant and Mechanical Circulatory Support at the Heart Institute.

"We see patients that can live for as long as 20, 30, sometimes even 40 years after transplant, which is really unheard of in the transplant community as a whole," said Toeg. "Sometimes, we may have a couple days, other times we may have under 12 hours. We need to make sure the operating team is going to be available, and we call the patient in. That's a big call to make to a patient. It’s a lot of nerves and excitement for them, but a lot of worry as well," Brown said.

The Heart Institute says, on average, over 100 patients are on the waiting list to receive a heart transplant in Canada.Canadians are eyeing moves to these cities for more affordable housing Toronto MPP Bhutila Karpoche used her umbrella to shield herself from heavy rain Monday morning when she walked over to a high school in her riding to speak with Grade 10 students. The last thing she expected was to need to use it inside.A CP24 camera caught the moment a driver frantically got out of her car as it was being dragged by a truck on Avenue Road Wednesday afternoon.

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