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Visakhapatnam
By Our Special Correspondent
VISAKHAPATNAM, JAN. 13. Global Hospitals of Hyderabad is offering free liver transplantation for children afflicted with end-stage liver diseases. Announcing this at a press conference here on Monday, the hospitals' vice-president, D.R. Patnaik, claimed that for the first time in medical history, British and Indian doctors were joining hands to provide a new lease of life to such children. "About 3,000 to 4,000 children are dying in India every year due to liver diseases. They should live their full life. We started this on November 14, Children's Day, last year and it would continue for one year. The offer is open to children in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and West Asia,'' he said. The 150-bed Global Hospitals near Lakdi-ka-Pool in Hyderabad was fully equipped for this. A part of the liver would be taken from the parent and transferred to the child. So far, six liver transplants were done and in only one case, where it was a transfer from adult to adult, it failed. Liver transplantation is done free of cost and only the cost of medicines would be charged. "Everything--hospital fee, room rent, surgeon fee--is free. We have a tie-up with London's King's Hospital. Our doctors are being trained these two years there'', he revealed. Dr. Patnaik also said that surgeries like angiogram were performed at just Rs.3,000 (normal cost Rs. 7,000) and coronary bypass surgery for Rs.65,000 (normal cost Rs.93,000) at the hospitals to ensure that advanced medicare was provided to the poor. No white ration card or recommendation by MLA was needed. All that was required was that poor patients should present themselves on any Friday for cardiology problems. Similar concession is extended to the poor every Saturday for gastroenterology cases. The laparoscopic gall bladder removal is being done for Rs.6,500 for the poor and free services was a permanent feature in the hospitals which was also an institute for gastroenterology, liver diseases, renal diseases, laparoscopic surgery and organ transplantation with the state-of-the-art flat panel catheterization laboratory and electrophysiology lab, both under one roof for the first time in India, he claimed.
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