Panaji: A 21-year-old woman from Goa, Sujatha Chowgule, got a new rental after a liver transplant at the Aster CMI Hospital, Bengaluru who also raised funds for expensive procedures.
Chowgule has suffered from chronic liver disease since the age of 14, but his condition has deteriorated over the past year.
Gastroenterologists at Victor Hospital, Margao, Dr.
Jose Filipe Alvares suggested liver transplants, but his family was not in a position to bear the cost of the procedure that ran to Lakh Rupee.
“The condition of Sujatha’s liver continued to deteriorate for the past year.
Even though I recommend liver transplantation, his family is not in financial condition to raise the bill.
We then contacted Aster CMI,” Alvares said.
The main consultant and liver transplant surgeon at the Aster CMI Hospital, Dronal Asthana examined it during the regular outreach clinic in Goa.
He also said that liver transplantation is a solution and that he can be helped under the initiative of the affordable Heart Transplant CMI.
Not long faster was a suitable donor found in his mother Bharati, 47 – he donated his right side of his heart – the transplant was mocked.
Mothers and girls returned to Goa after a successful transplant and since it was fully recovered, the press statement of the hospital reading.
Hospitals support poor patients who need transplants as part of corporate social responsibility and increase funds through crowdfunding.
“We found several patients such as Sujatha who could not access the surgery to save soul because of the lack of funds.
This is where an affordable liver transplant initiative entered into the image.
This is supported by several charities and also with crowdfunding and so far transplants are transplanted on 102 children And young adults at a cost of less than Rs 5 Lakh family, “Asthana said.
The transplant team consists of asthana, Dr.
Rajiv Lochan J, Dr.
Karthik Raichurkar, Dr.
Aravind Sheshadri, Dr.
Naphene N, Dr.
Malikarjun Sakpal, Dr.
Apurva Pande, and Dr V Arun.