The family of a Scots toddler who is kept alive with a portable blood pump are pleading with people to become an organ donor.
Ethan Mains, from Glasgow, is a patent at Ward 23 of the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle and needs a new heart. Due to his situation, the three-year-old cannot leave the hospital for long and rarely goes outside.
The tot is one of many sick children waiting even longer for life-saving surgery in the wake of the Covid pandemic. His parents have joined an appeal with the families of other children on the ward to urge more people to become a donor in the event of their own death.
