Girl Gives Kidney
fN.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) EXETER (England), April 6.
A 15-year-old girl, watching a heart transplant television programme, told her father that if she were dying she would willingly give any part of her body to save a life. Yesterday—two weeks later —this turned out to be Elizabeth Costigan’s last wish. She died in hospital after a road accident, thrown from the pillion seat of a motorcycle. Soon afterwards one of her kidneys was transplanted into a 35-year-old man being kept alive by an artificial kidney machine. Doctors said today his condition was satisfactory.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31649, 8 April 1968, Page 3
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