Woman's kidney donation through sharing scheme saves husband and stranger

Sean Brown, who was living with kidney failure, needed a transplant, but his wife Una was not a 100% match. The Belfast couple entered the UK Living Kidney Sharing Scheme, which allowed Una to donate her kidney to a stranger and enabled Sean to receive a compatible organ from a different donor. The couple initially faced a setback on the morning of their surgery on 8 October when Sean's intended donor became unwell. However, an alternative match emerged allowing the transplants to proceed through paired donation, with Una's kidney flown to Edinburgh and Sean's donor kidney travelling to Belfast.