COVID-19 patients to receive a double lung transplant at the hospital in the last two months, as doctors fight them from severe cases of the virus.VGH is the only hospital in B.C.
able to perform the procedure, and has done more than any other facility in the country. Ontario man believed to be 1st Canadian with COVID-destroyed lungs gets transplant “The plan was to put Marc on EKMO, which is kind of a heart-lung bypass machine to give his lungs a rest and give them a chance to heal, but after well over a month and a half, the lungs were just not healing,” his brother Darrin, who has come to B.C.
from Ontario to care for Marc, said.Marc, an otherwise healthy 48-year-old RCMP reservist, fell ill in April after returning to B.C.