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Families back campaign to raise awareness of need for more child organ donors

The families of two children waiting for organ transplants have backed a campaign to raise awareness of the need for more child organ donors.

Ava Murray, from Peterhead, and Jack Sneddon, from Glasgow, live with serious conditions that affect organs and are waiting for transplants that could give them a new lease of life.

NHS Blood and Donation has launched the Waiting to Live campaign, with dolls made in the likenesses of Ava and Jack, among others.

The handmade

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