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By Liam Verster

Operation Popcorn

Local health care workers to be recognized for their transplant work

Dec 1, 2025 | 11:15 AM

Health care professionals involved in transplants will be thanked for their work and provided a snack this week.

B.C. Transplant, Provincial Health Services Authority, and the Ministry of Health will hold its Operation Popcorn over the week of Dec. 1.

Through Operation Popcorn, volunteers from B.C. Transplant will visit intensive care units, emergency departments, operating rooms, transplant units, transplant clinics and transplant pharmacies across the province, including in the Okanagan, where they will give personal thanks to the health care teams and provide them with bags of popcorn.

The volunteers will visit the health care workers at Vernon Jubilee Hospital on Friday, Dec. 5. They will also be visiting Kelowna General Hospital on Tuesday, Dec. 2.

B.C Transplant said there were 1,617,709 British Columbians registered in the Organ Donor Registry as of early November. Anyone interested in registering as an organ donor can do so online.

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“Most British Columbians support organ donation, yet only one in three have actually registered their decision. We hope this email gives them the nudge they need to make it official—and potentially save lives,” Eric Lun, B.C. Transplant’s executive director, said.

“For all of us, Operation Popcorn is a powerful reminder of the transformative impact of organ donation.”