GETTING STARTED
Living kidney donation is a step by step process
Contact and consent
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The first step is a complete a set of forms. You can access the forms in English or in French below:
Information on Living Kidney Donation
Information sur le Don Rein d'une Personne Vivante
Completing the Forms
1) Print the forms in your preferred language above.
2) Print the welcome letter in your preferred language below.
3) Call us at 613-738-8400 ext. 82719 to receive and submit the forms by mail.
Returning the Forms
1) EMAIL the completed forms to livingkidneydonor@toh.ca.
2) FAXto the Living Kidney Donation Program at 613-738-8403
3) Print and MAIL the forms to:
Living Kidney Donor Program
The Ottawa Hospital
1967 Riverside Dr. - Box 643
Ottawa, Ontario
K1H 7W9
Living Kidney Donation Welcome Letter
Lettre de bienvenue pour le don de rein vivant
Information and Evaluation
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We will provide you with additional information about the process of live kidney donation. You will also undergo a comprehensive evaluation. For more information about this process, please see Evaluation Process.
Living Kidney Donor Program: A Step by Step Process
What are my options if the recipient no longer needs my kidney?
You can still be a kidney donor. You can be a non-directed anonymous donor (NDAD) and start a chain of multiple kidney transplants across Canada if you decide to participate in the National Kidney Paired Donation Program. Your gift can help someone waiting on a waitlist.
The Power of One
NDADs are very important to the success of the Kidney Paired Donation (KPD) Program. When a non-directed anonymous donor — a person who is not paired with a transplant candidate, yet wishes to donate a kidney to someone in need — enrolls in the KPD program, their kidney donation is not conditional on a friend or family member receiving a transplant in return. This allows the KPD program to identify pairs that create significant numbers of transplant possibilities across Canada that otherwise would not be possible. Non-directed donors greatly increase the number of matches that can be made among the registered pairs.
Since they enter as a single rather than a pair, it also means that at the end of the domino exchange, one patient on the deceased donor waiting list also receives a kidney transplant.
For more information, visit blood.ca.