Governor lauds DUHS doctors for successful liver transplants

Karachi

Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad on Sunday congratulated the team of doctors at the Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS), Ojha campus, who carried out three successful liver transplants at the varsity.

During a visit to the campus, the governor met with the liver donors and recipients, who were all reported to be recovering well.

“Pakistanis would not have to go abroad for liver transplants since the DUHS surgeons and experts were completely capable of carrying out such complicated surgeries,” Ebad said while addressing media personnel at the campus.

He said the successful liver transplants were a ray of hope for patients of liver cirrhosis in Pakistan.

The surgeries were carried out under the supervision of transplant surgeon from India, Dr Gupta, last week.

The governor having previously announced to bear the cost of first 10 liver transplants to be carried out at the Ojha campus, said huge foreign exchange reserves had to be spent on liver transplants abroad, as most of the patients requiring a transplant could not afford to seek a treatment outside of the country.

Ebad claimed that Pakistani surgeons who would be performing liver transplants at DUHS had been trained in the United States and Turkey and were as competent and trained as any other liver transplant team of surgeons in the world.

State of the art surgical facilities and equipment had been arranged for the surgeries at the Ojha campus, he said, adding that even international experts had applauded the post-operative care facilities at the Dow varsity.

As far as the expenses were concerned, the varsity was charging the minimum possible amount from patients and those who could not afford to make the payments in one go, could pay them in easy and convenient instalments.