People coming to India for liver transplant
People coming to India for liver transplant
New Delhi, Feb 02: Forty-Four-year-old Nigerian Mariam Shehu was asked to wait for her death in her country, before she got a new lease of life here through a liver transplant surgery.
She is just one of 34 patients who have got highly specialised liver transplant surgery done in a hospital here in the past one year - 14 of them being from other countries such as Pakistan, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Nigeria and West Indies.
Mariam was diagnosed with end stage liver failure caused due to Hepatitis C in her country in February 2005.
'The doctors told me nothing can be done here...Go back to your home. That meant waiting for death,' Mariam told reporters here. However, her brother, who is in the US surfed the net for her and discovered India could be her saviour.
She got a live donor and liver transplant done here at the Gangaram Hospital on August 4, 2005. Her son, 26-year-old Toyin, donated liver.
Both Mariam and her son are now doing well, Dr S Nundy, Chairman of Surgical Gastroenterology at the hospital, said.
'Out of the 34 patients who underwent liver transplant done in the past one year, 20 are from India, Eight from Pakistan, three from Myanmar and one each from Bangladesh, Nigeria and Aruba (West Indies).
Liver transplant is needed for patients who are suffering from end stage liver failure. 'Success rate in this hospital is 89 per cent which matches the best internationally,' he said.
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New Delhi, Feb 02: Forty-Four-year-old Nigerian Mariam Shehu was asked to wait for her death in her country, before she got a new lease of life here through a liver transplant surgery.
She is just one of 34 patients who have got highly specialised liver transplant surgery done in a hospital here in the past one year - 14 of them being from other countries such as Pakistan, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Nigeria and West Indies.
Mariam was diagnosed with end stage liver failure caused due to Hepatitis C in her country in February 2005.
'The doctors told me nothing can be done here...Go back to your home. That meant waiting for death,' Mariam told reporters here. However, her brother, who is in the US surfed the net for her and discovered India could be her saviour.
She got a live donor and liver transplant done here at the Gangaram Hospital on August 4, 2005. Her son, 26-year-old Toyin, donated liver.
Both Mariam and her son are now doing well, Dr S Nundy, Chairman of Surgical Gastroenterology at the hospital, said.
'Out of the 34 patients who underwent liver transplant done in the past one year, 20 are from India, Eight from Pakistan, three from Myanmar and one each from Bangladesh, Nigeria and Aruba (West Indies).
Liver transplant is needed for patients who are suffering from end stage liver failure. 'Success rate in this hospital is 89 per cent which matches the best internationally,' he said.
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