Doctors at NRI General Hospital in Guntur district have successfully performed a liver transplant on a farmer from Movva in Krishna district. The surgery is said to be the first of its kind by a teaching hospital in the State.
According to a release, the liver of a brain-dead pregnant woman of Gadwal district in Telangana was transplanted to the receiver. She was admitted to KIMS hospital in Kurnool.
A team of doctors led by Dr. Srikanth removed the liver from the woman and shifted it to NRI Hospital on Sunday through a green channel arranged by police from Kurnool to Mangalagiri. The ambulance covered a distance of 370 km in six hours, doctors said.