Three children, aged between five to 10 years, suffering from liver failure, had new lease of life as they underwent living-related successful liver transplants at Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT) last week, doctors said Saturday.
The SIUT doctors sharing details of the procedure here said that all the three children were now out of the intensive care unit and were making good progress. The donors, two of the mothers of the recipients and one father were said to have also done very well.
The successful surgical procedure was performed by a team of SIUT surgeons along with a visiting team from the Shiraz Organ Transplant Centre which is one of the largest of its kind in the region. Dr Malek Al Husaini who led the Iranian team was the head of Shiraz Transplant Centre and an immediate past President of the Middle East Society of Organ Transplantation.
Mohammad Bilal, aged 7, received liver from his father Mohammad Iqbal (40 years); Ahsan Aslam, a 10- year old resident of Usmanabad received the organ from his mother, Kishwar Aslam (35) while Ahsan Ali Haider, aged 5, who also comes from Usmanabad was the third patient whose mother Nazia Ali Haider, gave a part of her liver. These patients received care under the traditional SIUT model where all treatment is provided free of cost and thus the entire surgical procedure and post-operation care caused no economic hardship to the three families.
long live DR Adeeb Rizvi,proud to be pakistani.
Seriously you people are serving to the humanity in real terms. I personally know what sort of things a family faces if any of the family member get affected by any sort of illness
So happy to hear of the progress made by SIUT.
Congratulations to Adib and Anwar and the whole team
Ossie Fernando
siut doctors are nuts..they did procedures and could nt handle the surgeries…childrens died during and post operative recovery
now thy have hired iranians to do all surgeries…unfortunately we dont have world class surgeons n only world class docs that take bribe from pharmas to sell their stuff…thts pity
It is matter of great national pride that a hospital in Pakistan (Shifa International Hospital Islamabad) has so far performed more than 340 living donor liver transplant surgeries in Pakistan.
The center was established in 2012 and since it has been performing the transplant surgeries as per International standards & parameters of success.
There are still a lot of patients who are advised by Medical agencies and agents to visit Indian hospitals as Indian hospitals provide commission and financial incentive to these agents.
I just would like to advice all the patients who have been recommended Liver Transplant to first visit Shifa International Hospital and then decide about their options for treatment.
http://www.shifa.com.pk/livertransplant
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