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St. Joseph’s hospital live-streams a kidney transplant operation

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By Chantel Grillo

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St. Joe’s hospital calls it a match made in Hamilton. For the first time in Canada’s history a hospital has live streamed a kidney transplant and over a thousand people tuned in on Facebook.

CHCH spoke with the donor and patient ahead of the surgery and as Nicole Martin reports the transplant was a success.

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