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'It
Was My Dream To Conduct Liver Transplant For The Last 16 Years'
About two lakh people in India die of liver diseases every
year, who could be saved by liver transplant. According to
Sir Roy Calne, a pioneer in liver transplantation, it is the
most complex surgery ever developed in the field of surgery.
To aggravate matters, it is capital and technology intensive,
discouraging hospitals to initiate liver transplant programme.
Undeterred by these hurdles, a month after it obtained permission
from the State Appropriate Authority to conduct transplant,
Wockhardt Hospitals, Mumbai conducted the group's first ever
liver transplant surgery, recently. The transplant was adult
to adult living donor liver transplant (LDLT) on 53-year-old
patient. The patient's son has donated part of his liver for
the transplant. The 18-hour-long surgery was conducted by
Dr S K Mathur, consultant surgeon for surgical gastroenterology
and liver transplantation. In an interview with Rita Dutta,
Dr Mathur, who is the president of Haepatobiliary Association
of India, speaks about his maiden liver transplant surgery
and about the dynamics of setting up a liver transplant programme
in a hospital.
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