Union leader Mark Serwotka: I'm being kept alive by an electronic device – video

http://www.theguardian.com/society/video/2014/sep/05/union-leader-mark-serwotka-kept-alive-electronic-device-video

The leader of one of Britain's biggest trade unions reveals exclusively to the Guardian that he is being kept alive by an electronic device strapped to a belt around his waist. Mark Serwotka has suffered heart and kidney failures and is awaiting a heart transplant. While he waits for the surgery, the PCS boss, who leads around a quarter of a million civil servant and central government workers, has been fitted with a device that works instead of his heart (The Guardian.com Sept 4, 2104)