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George Lithgow and Lydia Chantler-Hicks

Newborn baby flown from UK to Italy in military plane for life-saving treatment

A one-month-old boy with a congenital heart condition has been airlifted from an NHS hospital to Rome to undergo life-saving surgery.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni personally intervened so the child could travel, it has been reported.

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