AN 83-year-old Overton man has achieved a double first by becoming the oldest person in the UK to donate a kidney and the oldest person in the country to give a kidney to a stranger.
Nicholas Crace, a widower and former charity director, is one of a rare group of people known as “altruistic donors” – someone who gives a kidney to a person they do not know who is on the organ donor waiting list.
The NHS allocates their kidney to the next suitable recipient.
Mr Crace said: “I knew 7,000 people are waiting for a kidney and that one person dies almost every day while waiting.
“I couldn’t have lived with myself with the knowledge I had had the chance of changing someone’s life and turned it down.”
Read all about Mr Crace's amazing story in today's paper.
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