Transplant first

DOCTORS have transplanted eight organs — a world first — into an Italian baby, who is in good condition six weeks after the operation.

Alessia Di Matteo, now seven months old, received a new liver, stomach, pancreas, small intestine, large intestine, spleen and two kidneys during a 12-hour operation.

Doctors at the University of Miami-Jackson Memorial Medical Centre said the surgery was the world’s first eight-organ transplant.