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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Nadeem Badshah

Tory MP Craig Mackinlay reveals his hands and feet have been amputated due to sepsis

Craig Mackinlay.
Craig Mackinlay says he now wants to be known as the first ‘bionic MP’, after he was fitted with prosthetic legs and hands. Photograph: Isabella Allen/BBC News

The Conservative MP Craig Mackinlay has revealed that he had both his hands and feet amputated last year due to sepsis.

Mackinlay, who will return to public life on Wednesday for the first time since the ordeal, was taken to hospital last September and diagnosed with sepsis, a life-threatening reaction to an infection that occurs when the immune system overreacts and starts to damage the body’s own tissues and organs.

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