LUCKNOW: After a gap of nearly 14 months, the department of surgical gastroenterology at King George’s Medical University (KGMU) conducted a liver transplant on Saturday.
It was the 12th such surgery done by the department within its limited means.
The transplant was performed on a 41-year-old Lucknow resident, who was suffering from liver cirrhosis.
As he could not have survived without a transplant, the man’s 33-year-old wife agreed to donate the organ.
A team of doctors, including surgeons of the surgical gastroenterology department and experts of the anesthesia department, performed the 12-hour operation.
Both the donor and recipient are doing fine, said a senior professor part of the team.
“The patient came to us six months ago with end stage liver cirrhosis.
All the Covid precautions were followed while transplanting the liver,” he added.
Normally, a liver transplant costs around Rs 30 lakh at a private hospital, while the expenses at KGMU is around Rs 8 lakh.
However, on Saturday, the patient was operated free of cost under ‘Asadhya Rog Yojana’.
Doctors also arranged money and drugs for the patients through charity Kin of the patient said the government should extend more support to surgical gastroenterology department of KGMU, which has the potential of developing into a leading facility for underprivileged This was the 12th liver transplant at KGMU since March 2017.