Heart man improving
NZPA correspondent '•/■?■■ ' London The New. Zealand man who became Britain’s most recent ? heart-transplant patient is making's smooth and uncomplicated. re-> covefy. Mr Allen Gay, aged 43, was given a new-heart 11 days ago by surgeons at
Papworth Hospital, Cambridge. He has been . moved from the germ-free barrier nursing unit into a single room, and is now allowed to wear his own clothes and-recuperate normally. , “He is making verv satisfactory progress,” said a hospital spokesman yesterday. “There are no complications.”
Mr Gay’s wife is staving at the hospital to be near her husband, who faces several more weeks recuperation. : In a “normal, smooth recovery,” the hospital said, transplant patients could expect to be released between 10 weeks and three months from the date of their surgery.
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