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flag Six-month-old Rory Fletcher, critically ill with heart failure, awaits a life-saving transplant as UK donor numbers drop.

flag Six-month-old Rory Fletcher from Knutsford, Cheshire, is critically ill with dilated cardiomyopathy and on the urgent heart transplant waiting list at Newcastle’s Freeman Hospital, where she’s been in intensive care since birth, sustained by a mechanical heart pump. flag Her parents, Becks and Toby, are urging the public to consider organ donation as the UK’s transplant waiting list hits a record 8,000, with a 2% drop in deceased donors last year. flag The family hopes for a donor heart to allow Rory to go home, hear her laugh, and live a normal life. flag Over the past decade, more than 12,000 people in the UK have died or been removed from the waiting list before receiving a transplant, while over 44,000 lives have been saved or improved. flag Organ Donation Week is approaching, and NHS Blood and Transplant emphasizes that one donor can save up to nine lives.

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