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Tom Wilkinson & Kathleen Speirs

Glasgow toddler needs new heart as desperate family plead for donors

The family of a Glasgow toddler who needs a new heart are pleading with people to become an organ donor.

Ethan Mains is a patient at Ward 23 of the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle. The three-year-old is kept alive with portable blood pumps but cannot leave the hospital for long and rarely goes outside.

The tot is one of many sick children waiting even longer for life-saving operations in the wake of the pandemic.

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