Instead, the six-year-old’s lifeline was left on the tarmac for an unknown amount of time. “Mateoh has been a long-term patient at the Queensland Children’s Hospital and his care team understands and shares the family’s disappointment at this unforeseen delay in the delivery of his donor cells,” Children’s Health Queensland said. “He’s fought (for) 3½ years and now for someone to just be so naive and just forget these at the airport … like it’s unacceptable, it wasn’t a Christmas present - this is a lifesaving measure