Rela Hospital Performs Liver Transplant on Sri Lankan Professor; With Accidental Donor, Amid Covid Lockdown
The hospital also performs a surgery on the patient’s wife, the original donor prospect, who is unexpectedly diagnosed with a lesion in her small intestine, and thus becomes unfit to be a donor. The transplant is done with the patient’s brother-in-law coming forward to donate a part of his liver, at the last minute . Chennai, November 10, 2020: Dr Rela Institute & Medical Centre, a leading multi-speciality quaternary care hospital in Chennai, and one of the largest liver transplant units in the country, saved the life of a Sri Lankan professor by mobilising a team of competent surgeons to perform a liver transplant surgery on him, amid strict lockdown restrictions - even as the original donor prospect, who was the patient’s wife, turned out to be medically unfit to donate her organ. (L to R)- Dr. Gomathy Narasimhan , Vice-Chairman, Medical Advisory Board & Senior Consultant, HPB Surgery, Liver and Renal Transplant Surgeon, Dr Rela Institute ...