Cork family received three ‘life-changing’ kidney transplants within six months
The family members required transplants as they suffer from a hereditary condition called polycystic kidney disease
Pictured are Joe Cote, Ballyclough; Margaret Fitzgerald, Buttevant and Michael Fitzgerald, Carrigaline.
“An extraordinary series of events” led to three members of a family spread across north and east Cork receiving “life-changing” kidney transplants in the space of six months last year.
Buttevant grandmother Margaret Fitzgerald, aged 70, and her 49-year-old son Michael Fitzgerald, based in Carrigaline, both suffer from a hereditary condition called polycystic kidney disease (PKD) and they received vital kidney transplants from deceased donors at Beaumont Hospital in Dublin just seven weeks apart.
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