Man recovering after double-lung transplant

A MAN in his mid-50s is understood to be making a good recovery after undergoing the first double-lung transplant to be carried out in Ireland.

A team of surgeons in the Mater Hospital in Dublin operated on the man, believed to be from the west, in the early hours of yesterday morning. The operation, carried out in hospital’s National Heart/Lung Transplantation Unit, took around five hours to complete.

A spokesperson for the hospital said the patient, who suffers from emphysema, was doing well in intensive care yesterday.