'Waste of a year': Sask. family alleges doctors failed to place son on kidney transplant list
CTV
A Saskatchewan man diagnosed with renal kidney failure spent a year believing he was on a transplant list when he actually wasn't.
A Saskatchewan man diagnosed with renal kidney failure spent a year believing he was on a transplant list when he actually wasn't.
Keil Elles, a 23-year-old from near Kelliher, Sask. used to love quadding, horseback riding and taking his nieces and nephews swimming at the lake. However, in April of 2022, blood tests revealed his kidneys were failing due to type-1 diabetes he’s lived with since a young age.
"Now it’s just nothing; I can’t do much. When I do feel good, that’s one day a week," he told CTV News.
“It’s gone really downhill.”
At the outset of his diagnosis, Elles says he was told that he would be placed on a list to receive a new kidney.
However, at a recent appointment, his family said they were shocked to learn his doctors never placed Elles' name on a registry so he would be in line to get a new kidney.
“How can this happen and [how] was he forgot in the system?” Keil’s mother Linda Elles said.
