Organ donation: the gift of life
Wednesday, April 8, 2009 - 14:35
in Health & Medicine
The drama that unfolded in a Toronto hospital as the lives of two infants hung in the balance in the second week of April 2009 gripped the nation. Lily O'Connor, born March 9, 2009, with a congenital heart defect that robbed her blood of oxygen, lay seriously ill at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children. Her only option for survival is a heart transplant.