West Indian national gets new lease of life
West Indian national gets new lease of life
NEW DELHI, JAN 13 (PTI)
Left with only about a year to live due to a liver tumour, a 52-year-old West Indian from a Holland colony got a new lease of life in India after her husband donated part of his liver to save his wife.
After exhausting all options, including surfing the internet for medical choices, Beadjnamesea headed for India last December for a liver transplant and had a surgery done at a private hospital after her husband donated part of his liver to save her.
"They asked me to wait too long for a cadaver liver transplant," Beadjnamesea a resident of Aruba, said.
"They do not carry out live donor transplants," she said. The surgery was performed on January 10 in which 40 per cent of the liver from her husband was transplanted onto the patient. The liver takes about three weeks to regenerate in the donor.
The success rate of such transplants is about 90 per cent here which compares well with the western world. However, in Europe, cadaver transplants are encouraged as living donor transplants are more complex and expensive, Dr Subhas Gupta from Sir Gangaram Hospital, who operated on Beadjnamesea said.
Every week one or two liver transplants are done here in this hospital, Gupta said. In India, majority of transplants are from live donors. The hospital gets patients from Bangladesh, Nigeria, Afghanistan, Burma and Saudi Arabia.
In Netherlands, patients are faced with long waiting lists. However it was not possible to wait in this case, he said.
Beadjnamesea's family searched the internet for options and finally decided to come to India.
NEW DELHI, JAN 13 (PTI)
Left with only about a year to live due to a liver tumour, a 52-year-old West Indian from a Holland colony got a new lease of life in India after her husband donated part of his liver to save his wife.
After exhausting all options, including surfing the internet for medical choices, Beadjnamesea headed for India last December for a liver transplant and had a surgery done at a private hospital after her husband donated part of his liver to save her.
"They asked me to wait too long for a cadaver liver transplant," Beadjnamesea a resident of Aruba, said.
"They do not carry out live donor transplants," she said. The surgery was performed on January 10 in which 40 per cent of the liver from her husband was transplanted onto the patient. The liver takes about three weeks to regenerate in the donor.
The success rate of such transplants is about 90 per cent here which compares well with the western world. However, in Europe, cadaver transplants are encouraged as living donor transplants are more complex and expensive, Dr Subhas Gupta from Sir Gangaram Hospital, who operated on Beadjnamesea said.
Every week one or two liver transplants are done here in this hospital, Gupta said. In India, majority of transplants are from live donors. The hospital gets patients from Bangladesh, Nigeria, Afghanistan, Burma and Saudi Arabia.
In Netherlands, patients are faced with long waiting lists. However it was not possible to wait in this case, he said.
Beadjnamesea's family searched the internet for options and finally decided to come to India.
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