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Greenlit: Gift of Life, Channel 5
Gift of Life (3 x 60′) – Follows the real-life journeys of patients in need of life-saving organ transplants. Based at the Institute of Transplantation, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, each episode will focus on patients as they wait in hope for organs to become available before their window for life saving surgery closes forever.
But even if the organ does reach them in time, they still face enormous physical and emotional battles to overcome complex surgery and make it along the road to recovery.
With exclusive access to the Institute of Transplantation, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne over the course of six months, along with the patients and their families, the show will offer an intimate insight into one of the most difficult and heart-wrenching experiences most people will be fortunate enough never to have to experience.
Amongst others, the series will focus on six year-old Ella, who suffers from a congenital heart defect and is in urgent need of a heart transplant, and 22 year old cystic fibrosis sufferer, Holly, whose time is almost up following a two year wait for a double lung transplant. The series will also get close to the transplant coordinators, surgeons and nurses who share in the patients’ difficult journeys as they fight for survival.
Channel: Channel 5
Producer: True North / GroupM Entertainment.
TX: TBC
Source: Channel 5 press release
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