Girl receives organ donations from both parents

A five-year-old girl has become the first person in Britain to receive organ donations from both her parents. Jasmine Mirza is currently recovering from a kidney transplant from her mother, four years after receiving a new liver from her father.

She is now well enough to start school for the first time, and her father Sohrab, 38, said that her ordeal had helped bring the family closer. "As a parent, you would always say you would give an arm and a leg to help your children. It is amazing that we have been able to do that," he said. "She is more part of us now than she ever would have been."

Jasmine from Farnborough, Surrey was taken for her first transplant at London's King's College Hospital when she was just one year old, after a mystery condition caused her liver to fail.



Doctors were unable to discover the cause of the problem and Jasmine spent the early years of her life in and out of hospital undergoing dialysis and tests.

Last year the cocktail of drugs she was taking to ensure the liver was accepted by her body caused damage to her kidneys, forcing her to undergo a second operation. In October a kidney was taken from her mother Cathie, 33, at Guy's Hospital and carried across London to Jasmine, who was being treated at at St Thomas'.

The NHS Blood and Transplant Agency confirmed that this was the first recorded case of a child in this country receiving organs from both parents. There have been two other instances of a patients receiving a liver and a kidney from family members, but in both cases the donor was the same parent.