The kidney swap scheme that saved my daughter's life

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By the time Destiny-Rae turned 5, she'd spent the equivalent of 6 months of her life on a dialysis machine. Her kidneys stopped working properly when she was 10 months old, making her the youngest patient to be put on dialysis at Great Ormond Street Hospital. The odds of finding a donor were stacked against Destiny. New figures show black patients are waiting ten months longer on the transplant list for a new kidney than white patients. NHS Blood and Transplant say there’s a national shortage of organs, particularly from black and ethnic minority donors. In this episode of 5 Minutes On, our digital health correspondent Michelle Roberts follows Destiny-Rae and her mum Maria, as they take part in a special organ swap scheme with living donors.