In just 24 hours a team of dedicated doctors sparked new life into five patients with a series of transplants using organs from just two donors.

This rare feat performed by surgeons in Birmingham was just like the miracle for the five patients including an eight-month-old baby and their families. The doctors performed two stomach, bowel and liver transplants on five different patients.

The teams of surgeons at Birmingham Children's Hospital and University Hospitals Birmingham swing into action on June 11 when around midnight they were informed that the two donors had become available.

In the first stage of the procedures a stomach, pancreas and small bowel of the first donor were given to an 11-year-old boy. Then around 8am one half of the dead donor's liver was given to eight-month-old Lubaya Turpin and other half to Sandie Lee Smith, 30.

Then in a 'domino' transplant, Mrs Smith's diseased liver was transferred to cancer victim Sean O'Brien, 43, from Taunton, in Somerset. Mr O'Brien was diagnosed with liver cancer four years ago but does not qualify for a normal liver transplant because of the size of his tumor.

Finally the second team of surgeons gave liver, pancreas and intestine of the second to a 14-year-old boy from Bradford. The surgeons were Darius Mirza, Khalid Sharif, Paolo Muiesan and Simon Bramell.