‘DIY’ kidney machine saves girl
A baby dying from kidney failure was saved when her doctor designed and built her a dialysis machine from scratch in his garage.
Millie Kelly was too small for conventional NHS machines, so Dr Malcolm Coulthard and a colleague constructed a scaled-down version.
Two years later, her mother Rebecca says she is “fit as a fiddle”.
She, and Dr Coulthard, from Newcastle’s Royal Victoria Infirmary, now want the machine to be available to others.
