Faisalabad, January 05: With her parents unable to afford her treatment, it was a miracle that seven-year-old Hadia Khan, a resident of Faisalabad in Pakistan, had survived till now after being detected with chronic liver diseases when she was just five-months-old.
But thanks to Indian doctors, the girl underwent a successful liver transplant surgery here, and can live a normal life now.
Doctors at Hepatology and Liver Transplantation at Medanta, The Medicity led by Dr AS Soin conducted the surgery on Hadia.
“When she was brought to us last November she was in a stage of precoma. She was quite sick and we had to initially stabilise her for a week. Doctors at her hometown had diagnosed her of suffering from liver disease when she was only five months old,” said Dr Neelam Mohan, director, department of paediatric gastroenterology, hepatology and liver transplantation at Medanta.
“At one and a half years of age, her liver biopsy revealed cirrhosis. She is now seven years old and surprisingly she sustained it that long,” she said.
There was delay in treatment as her family could not afford it. Her father is an accountant by profession and mother is a tailor, the doctors said.
The transplant was conducted in a limited budget of Rs13.5 lakh and was sponsored by Chief Minister of Pakistan’s Punjab province Shahbaz Sharif, Mohan said.
Hadia did very well post surgery and could be discharged in two weeks’ time. “Its now a month post transplant and they are going back to Pakistan as a happy family,” the doctor said.
——PTI