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Indian blood saves Pakistani life ....

NEW DELHI: Nine Indians came forward to donate blood to help a Pakistani national admitted to a hospital in neighbouring Gurgaon for a liver transplant surgery.

Forty-year-old Abdul Razaq, a resident of Lahore in Pakistan, was diagnosed with liver failure due to Hepatitis C and was advised immediate surgery which according to them required 10 to 15 units of blood.

Because of help given by Indians, Razaq underwent a successful liver transplant on September 28 at the Medanata Medcity in Gurgaon and is now doing well, according to doctors at the hospital.

Razaq was suffering from end-stage liver failure and was advised immediate surgery. In such surgeries, there is huge blood loss and the provision for blood is made by the hospital against exchange of blood contributed by friends and relatives of the patient.

“But in this case the patient had come to India with only his doctor and knew no one here,'' said Medanta Institute of Liver Transplantation and Regenerative Medicine chairman Dr. A. S. Soin.

“We did not know who to ask for help with Razaq having no family members around in India. He needed 10 to 15 units of blood,'' said Razaq's doctor Dr. Mohammad Khalid who had accompanied him for treatment.

“I approached a person who I had befriended in the hospital when he had come to the hospital for his father's treatment. He promised to help. Later I went to Jarsa village near the hospital to look for more persons willing to donate blood. I met some men at the village and told them about my patient's condition and our need for blood. We were pleasantly surprised when on September 28 morning, the day the transplant was conducted, nine persons came forward to donate blood for Razaq,'' added Dr. Khalid.

“We are obliged to those nine people who turned up to help,'' he added.

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