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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Health
Nick Forbes

Quadruple amputee ‘indebted’ to a donor for second time after kidney transplant

Cor Hutton said she is proof that ‘lives can be changed and saved’ by organ donation (Jane Barlow/PA) - (PA Archive)

A quadruple amputee who became the first Scot to receive a double hand transplant has said she is “absolutely indebted” to a donor for the second time in her life after receiving a new kidney.

Cor Hutton was given a 5% chance of survival when she developed a life-threatening bout of sepsis in 2013, stemming from an everyday cough.

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