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24/07/2008
Hundreds Attend Heart Transplant Girl's Funeral
The funeral has taken place of two-year-old transplant patient Zoe Chambers.
The East Yorkshire toddler, died suddenly on 12 July just a month after celebrating the first anniversary of her life-saving operation.
Her funeral at Hull's Northern Crematorium was attended by hundreds of mourners.
A local news source said that Zoe fell ill at the family home in St Nicholas Avenue, west Hull.
Dr Richard Kirk, the transplant cardiologist at Newcastle Freeman Hospital, where Zoe spent many months, said at time of her death that staff were "shocked".
Dr Kirk said what happened to Zoe is "so unfortunate and extremely uncommon".
"To die after a year following the huge steps forward she had taken is unheard of in our experience".
Before getting her new heart, the toddler suffered six heart attacks and survived for 100 days attached to a Berlin Heart.
Zoe had been fast-tracked to the top of the European transplant list.
Following her 10-hour operation, Zoe began eating normally and earlier this year she took her first steps.
Last month, Zoe's parents, Rob and Julie, threw a party in their daughter's honour to celebrate a full year of good health since she received her new heart.
Zoe had become a national icon for organ donation in her short life.
Carol Olley, from Transplant Sport UK, said "over a million people signed the organ donor register due to the campaign orchestrated by the Chambers family and Zoe's courage".
Zoe had been due to be the youngest competitor at the British Transplant Games in Sheffield in August.
Zoe was born with a heart valve defect.
Julie Chambers has said that she will not stop campaigning to urge more people to become organ donars.
According to UK Transplant, 15,543,336 people have said they want to help others after their death by joining the NHS Organ Donor Register.
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The East Yorkshire toddler, died suddenly on 12 July just a month after celebrating the first anniversary of her life-saving operation.
Her funeral at Hull's Northern Crematorium was attended by hundreds of mourners.
A local news source said that Zoe fell ill at the family home in St Nicholas Avenue, west Hull.
Dr Richard Kirk, the transplant cardiologist at Newcastle Freeman Hospital, where Zoe spent many months, said at time of her death that staff were "shocked".
Dr Kirk said what happened to Zoe is "so unfortunate and extremely uncommon".
"To die after a year following the huge steps forward she had taken is unheard of in our experience".
Before getting her new heart, the toddler suffered six heart attacks and survived for 100 days attached to a Berlin Heart.
Zoe had been fast-tracked to the top of the European transplant list.
Following her 10-hour operation, Zoe began eating normally and earlier this year she took her first steps.
Last month, Zoe's parents, Rob and Julie, threw a party in their daughter's honour to celebrate a full year of good health since she received her new heart.
Zoe had become a national icon for organ donation in her short life.
Carol Olley, from Transplant Sport UK, said "over a million people signed the organ donor register due to the campaign orchestrated by the Chambers family and Zoe's courage".
Zoe had been due to be the youngest competitor at the British Transplant Games in Sheffield in August.
Zoe was born with a heart valve defect.
Julie Chambers has said that she will not stop campaigning to urge more people to become organ donars.
According to UK Transplant, 15,543,336 people have said they want to help others after their death by joining the NHS Organ Donor Register.
(DS)
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Baby Zoe has heart transplant
The baby girl at the top of the heart transplant list has received a donor heart. At just 18-months-old Zoe Chambers from Hull had already suffered six heart attacks due to a narrow heart valve. Doctors at Freeman Hospital in Newcastle say that the transplant operation went well and Zoe is in a stable condition.
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