The Government Medical College Hospital (MCH), Thiruvananthapuram, performed a living donor liver transplant successfully on Thursday, the second government MCH in Kerala to perform such a surgery successfully.
A team of transplant surgeons from KIMSHEALTH and Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences ably assisted the surgical team at the MCH
The patient, a 53-year-old from Malappuram who had been ailing due to liver cirrhosis and malignancy following NASH (non-alcoholic steatohepatitis), received the liver from a close relative of his. He is now recuperating in the Transplant ICU. He will continue to be under close monitoring for the next two weeks till his liver function normalises, said a press release issued by the office of Health Minister Veena George here.
