NEW DELHI: Sixteen-year-old Madhia Tariq from Pakistan had no hope of survival when she slipped into coma after collapsing in her school in Lahore in January due to acute liver failure. An air ambulance went from Delhi and brought her to the capital on February 2 - and back to life.
Madhia, who had developed hepatitis, underwent a successful liver transplant on February 3 at Indraprastha Apollo Hospital in the city where a team of 18 doctors operated upon her. Her brother Rizwan donated almost half his liver.
Dr Anupam Sibal, group medical director, Apollo Hospitals, said, "If the girl was not operated on time, she could not be saved. We completed all formalities in 48 hours."
According to Dr Subash Gupta, chief liver transplant surgeon at the hospital, it took 18 hours to conduct the donor and transplant surgery.
Madiha was discharged on March 6 but was staying in India for check-ups, said her brother Rizwan. "We are happy my sister has recovered and it has been great coming here. We have got tremendous support," he said.
The teenager is the 350th Pakistani to have undergone liver transplant at the hospital. Pakistanis form the second largest chunk of such patients to the hospital from any country other than India, said Gupta. In all, Apollo Transplant Programme has performed 1,252 liver transplants from 27 countries in the past 15 years.TOI
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