I’M ECSTATIC I GOT SUCH AN AMAZING GIFT OF A HEART – Freya Heddington

Two UK hospitals have teamed up to offer a new approach to help cut waiting lists and help children get heart transplants, reports BBC News.

According to the story, 14 year old Freya Heddington was one of the first to benefit from the new treatment, waiting just two months instead of two years.

In the programme, so-called “non-beating donor hearts” can effectively be restarted by surgeons to keep the organ healthy until transplantation in teenage recipients.

Despite the pandemic, 2020 was one of the busiest years in a decade for heart transplants in children in the UK.