Families of children waiting for heart transplant appeal for donors

Cheryl Adamson with her 18-month-old daughter Beatrix Adamson-Archbold at the Freeman Hospital in High Heaton, Newcastle Upon Tyne (Owen Humphreys/PA)

The families of five children waiting for a heart transplant have joined together to ask people to consider becoming organ donors.

Since the pandemic the number of available organs has dropped, leading to extremely poorly children waiting even longer for a life-saving operation.