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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Liam James

UK’s first double lung transplant spent five months on life support due to Covid

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A man who spent five months “shackled to life support machines” was saved by the UK’s first ever double lung transplant.

Cesar Franco, a 50-year-old maintenance engineer at a five-star hotel in central London, needed new lungs due to a particularly vicious bout of Covid-19.

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