The Nation - News from May 27, 1985
President Reagan joined the appeal for a critically ill 6-year-old boy in a Boston hospital awaiting a liver transplant, a federal official said. Health and Human Services Undersecretary Charles Baker said Reagan spoke to Margaret M. Heckler, secretary of HHS, about Shaun Harrington of Newport, N.H. Shaun was admitted to Massachusetts General Hospital April 3 to wait for a donor liver and is in critical condition. Baker said the President had asked the health agency to “do whatever it can” to bring the call for a donor to public attention.
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