The dad of "heart hero" Kit Matthews, who underwent a heart transplant at the Freeman Hospital in 2020 said his family were "firmly behind" the junior doctors' strikes - having seen how NHS staff went "above and beyond" to look after Kit when he fell ill.
Joe Matthews - himself a heart transplant recipient - said he and wife Hannah "couldn't imagine" not backing the strikes. Joe was speaking on the second day of the second stint of industrial action by junior doctors who are part of the British Medical Association.
Kit was just four when he fell ill in April 2020. After a doctor - working on his day off - saw him treated at hospital near to the family's Retford home and was able to diagnose him with cardiomyopathy. However, he was rapidly transferred to the Freeman, and after months at the Children's Heart Unit, he received a life-saving transplant.
