Transplant Stories docuseries premieres on Knowledge Network starting November 19
Powerful four-episode program follows the intimate, dramatic stories behind organ-transplant patients and professionals in Canada
Angela and her mom in Transplant Stories.
With unprecedented access to patients and rarely seen footage from the operating room, Transplant Stories is a four-episode TV series that follows the intimate and dramatic stories behind just a few of the thousands of organ transplants performed each year in Canada.
Viewers will see surgeons at Vancouver General Hospital and St. Paul’s Hospital recover a heart, liver, or lung from a donor and get it to a recipient in desperate need—people like Ben, a racing enthusiast with an auto-immune disorder who is waiting for a new set of lungs, and Angela, who is struggling with a condition that hardens her heart muscles. Fighting to save them is an extraordinary team of professionals, from organ-retrieval experts to dedicated surgeons.
Transplant Stories is directed by local filmmaker Sheona McDonald for Omnifilm Entertainment. New episodes air Tuesdays beginning November 19 at 9 pm.
Stream the series for free through the Knowledge Network, and learn more here.
Post sponsored by Knowledge Network.
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