Central News: 20.01.1982: Liver Transplant and Angioscope

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Summary

Debi Davies reports from the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham where an unnamed woman has undergone the first liver transplant in the West Midlands.

Year:

1982

Duration:

0:03:47

Film type:

Colour / Sound

Company:

Central Television

Master format:

Betacam SP

Description

Interview with transplant co-ordinator Bill Essex on the number of staff needed for such a complex operation (the patient was named the next day as Joan Phillips). Debi also reports on the hospital's appeal to raise £350,000 to buy an angioscope. Saudi Arabia has donated £50,000 towards the project. Interview with consultant neurosurgeon James McMillan on the function of the angioscope and with the appeal's chair, Michael Hurst on why the Saudi's should make such a large donation. Views of Queen Elizabeth Hospital including nurses on the ward. Still of the angioscope. (+ trims).


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