The family of a nine-year-old boy are heartbroken after he died following an operation that carried only a “one per cent chance of death”.
Noah Dixey, was diagnosed with an incurable genetic disease called Alagille syndrome when he was just eight weeks old. The illness only affects around one in every 100,000 children.
Noah therefore spent most of short life in and out of hospital and was taken into Great Ormand Street Hospital in London for a 14 hour long operation to attach his kidney to another source of blood and remove a metal stent that had been inserted in a previous operation, but was causing a blockage.
