Edmonton's University of Alberta hospital says a record number of transplants were performed at the hospital last year.
Surgeons performed 61 lung transplants, eclipsing the previous record of 44 set in 2014.
They performed 83 liver transplants, besting the previous record of 80 set in 2007, and 22 of those were transplants involving living donors.
Dr. Norman Kneteman, director for Transplant Services with Alberta Health Services, credits changes in the lung transplant program.
He says new technology is allowing the recovery of lungs that might not have been able to be used in the past.
Kneteman says the changes he's seen since he started in the program in 1989 have been remarkable.
Kneteman expects more organ donors to come on stream in the next few years after the government made changes to the donor program through drivers licence registration.
Currently there are 200,000 people registered, however, he cautions that one in three patients waiting on the list for a donor still dies because a suitable organ can’t be found.
