A newborn baby was saved from kidney failure after a paediatrician built a dialysis machine for her in his garage.
Millie Kelly was given little chance of surviving her first weeks when she suffered kidney failure after a lifesaving operation. At 6lb 2oz (3.3kg), she was too small to use the NHS dialysis machine that would do the work of her failed kidneys. It was not until Malcolm Coulthard, a paediatrician at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle, built the machine that she began to recover.
Millie is now a fit two-year-old and her mother is supporting Dr Coulthard’s campaign for hospitals across the country to have dialysis machines for small babies.
