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Meet the first UK transplant patient who will not need life-long drugs
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2:27Now PlayingAditi Shankar, an eight-year-old girl has become the first person in the UK to have a transplant - and not need to take immunosuppressant drugs for the rest of her life.
This UK-first procedure means Aditi's body accepts her new kidney as its own, following pioneering work by doctors at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital - as Sky's Sadiya Chowdhury reports.
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