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NEW DELHI: Doctors at Indraprastha Apollo Hospital here call him their miracle baby. And he is here now for a "trip down memory lane". From Calgary in Canada -- where his parents shifted some years ago -- Soumyadeep Ghose is listed in the Capital's "precious youngster category", a few to have undergone a live liver transplant. Now well and kicking, life of this 11-year-old ice-hockey loving youngster has been nothing short of a "miracle ride" from birth, according to his parents. Soumyadeep is back in the Capital to meet his doctors at Apollo Hospital, who performed the life saving liver transplant on October 12, 1999. "Soumyadeep's childhood has been chequered with surgeries. Born in Kolkata in 1994, he was brought to Delhi for treatment of jaundice he developed at birth. He was found to have no connection between his liver and intestine causing a condition known as biliary atresia, which had created complications for Soumyadeep,'' explained the senior consultant transplant surgery at Apollo Hospital, M. R. Rajasekar. Soumyadeep had his first surgery at the age of two and a half months after which, according to the doctors, the jaundice seemed to subside. "That was, however, only a false sense of well being and the child started showing signs of his jaundice increasing and he had to undergo another surgery within six months of his first operation. And while the jaundice did not clear, Soumyadeep rapidly developed features of liver failure, which is when he was referred to us. We were very worried as his condition did not seem to be very encouraging,'' said Dr. Rajasekar. Referred for a liver transplant in autumn 1999 to Apollo Hospital, Soumyadeep, underwent a liver transplant, where his father donated 30 per cent of his liver. "Subsequently he got well and joined Don Bosco School in Delhi and was doing well at school. His family immigrated to Canada in 2004. Soumyadeep is now on his first trip to India and we are thrilled to meet him and be able to shake hands with the little boy who underwent 12 hours of intensive surgery and we feared would not make it. He is our miracle baby,'' said Dr. Rajasekar.
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