Tonight.
On RTÉ One, at 9.35pm.
The second instalment of five-part series Keeping Ireland Alive: The health service in a day.
Gareth Naughton writes:
In the first clip (top), we visit Beaumont Hospital, where Maria Montgomery, 36, and her younger brother David O’Sullivan, 35, from Tipperary, are preparing to go into surgery. Today, under the team of Ms Dilly Little and Mr Gordon Smyth, Maria will be donating her kidney to her brother.
In the second clip (above), at the National Burns Unit in St James’s Hospital, we find Mr Odhran Shelley, consultant plastic and reconstructive surgeon on his morning rounds. Today, Mr Shelley will operate on Joanne McMahon, who suffered heavy burns to her face and body in an accident during a barbecue two years ago.
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This is a true story
One of my best mates had kidney cancer and everyone tip toed around it. He had the kidney removed
I brought him in a tin of kidney beans in hospital….
He saw the funny side
Cool story bro
:-) only a true friend would do that fluffy
This is well worth watching.
Joanne is a serious inspiration. She’s a real survivor after almost dying from injuries, being in a coma for months and has come back and raised thousands of euros for the Burns unit in James’ so they can buy much needed equipment.
+1
Loving the latest RTE documentaries: The Gardaí are great, the health service is great, the Taoiseach is great.
I watched it. Really great documentary. The system may be broken but the people working in it aren’t. The surgeon doing the kidney removal was brilliant.