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“Special Envoy” recounts the fight of two families to save one of their own, before, during and after an organ transplant.
Maé is a little boy of just over a year old. Suffering from a very rare hereditary metabolic disease, the only way to save him is a liver transplant. And it was Joey, her 26-year-old dad, who gave her a piece of his. The operation, delicate and relatively rare, took place last summer in Marseille. “Special Envoy” recounts the fight of two families to save one of their own, before, during and after an organ transplant.
More than 26,000 people awaiting transplant in France
In the Loir-et-Cher, it is between two sisters that the transplant will take place. Martine, 62, will give her sister Muriel, 63, her kidney to cure her. Ten percent of French people suffer from kidney failure, and sixteen percent of kidney transplants come from living donors. More than 26,000 patients are waiting for a transplant in France, and each year, the lack of grafts costs the lives of 600 people.
A report by Floriane Chaume, Benjamin Chabeau, Nicolas Bellemon, Cédric Fourre and Alexandre Amaral for Cover Films broadcast in “Special Envoy” on September 29, 2022.
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