Chennai: A team of doctors from Rela Hospital, Chennai, performed a successful live donor liver transplantation surgery and saved the life of a critically ill seven-month-old infant.
A press release said, Baby Mahira Ahmed from Kuwait was suffering from a rare genetic disorder called biliary atresia since her birth and doctors in Kuwait suggested for urgent liver transplant for child survival.
The baby along with her mother and grandmother travelled to India for a transplant at Rela Hospital in a flight operated under the government of Indiaās Vande Bharat Mission.
The child and her family, a native of Uttar Pradesh, landed in New Delhi in End-May 2020 from Kuwait, as there was no direct flight to Chennai from Kuwait. As the childās health condition was deteriorating during her quarantine period in Delhi, the family had to take the baby into a Delhi hospital for immediate treatment. But since her survival chances were said to be remote, the family made an appeal to the Indian government for her travel to Chennai for a liver transplant.
The child reached Rela Hospital here in an extremely critical condition, where doctors spearheaded by Professor Mohamed Rela performed a successful liver transplant with the help of a segment of liver donated by the childās mother.
Naresh Shanmugam, Paediatric Liver Specialist, said, “The child weighed 4.5 kilograms during admission and immediately provided nutritional support to make her firm for the transplant and she was 5.4 kilograms before the transplant.”