The organs of a 56-year-old Maltese woman who died of a stroke while holidaying in Vittoria, Ragusa have been donated to a number of clinical centres in Italy.

The gesture of humanity has been featured today in Corriere di Ragusa.

Her heart and one kidney were flown to Palermo, her liver to Bari and the other kidney to Catania.

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