Pakistan's First Liver Transplant Surgery

[sur]

Hello All,

Asking for your prayers and good wishes.

my cousin's brother-in-law --Dr. Tariq Ali Bangash and his team are doing Pakistan's 1st LIVER TRANSPLANT SURGERY today. Pray for all of them...

it would be a great milestone in the field of liver transplant surgeries for Pakistani Nation.



regards

Alhamdulillah, I read it was a success,,, but this would NOT be first attempt, It was attempted by a Professor who used to teach at Jinnah Hospital Lahore too but was unsuccessful.

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

correct.....he was not authorized to perform the operation and in fact, that patient later died due to related complications...

by the way, Congratulations on 1,000 posts, Sur.

 

[S.U.R.B.]

Alhamdulillah, I read it was a success,,, but this would NOT be first attempt, It was attempted by a Professor who used to teach at Jinnah Hospital Lahore too but was unsuccessful.

Heyyy Congrats! bro.

Big mile stone achieved.I just hope the trend of liver transplantation sets in here quickly.The frequency of hepatitis C infection in Pakistan is high as compared to other countries in the region.They should set up some transplant center now.
Congrats to Abu Zolfiqar. Is it a 14th August gift for the nation?

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

gift from the doctors......i'm just the bearer of good news

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

Cadaver liver transplant carried out in Lahore | Newspaper | DAWN.COM

By Asif Chaudhry

LAHORE: Doctors at the Shaikh Zayed Hospital carried out a successful cadaveric liver transplant on Friday.

The cadaveric liver (a liver from someone who has died) was donated by Mohammad Arsalan, a 16-year-old 10th class student of Muslim Town. He was admitted to the hospital with multiple injuries he had suffered in a road accident.

The 12-hour long transplant was done on a 40-year-old patient from Sialkot. His condition is said to be stable.

The surgery was conducted by a team of surgeons headed by Prof Dr Muhammad Tufail. Other members were: Dr Muhammad Shafi, Dr Amir Latif, Dr Tariq Bangash, Dr Haroon Majeed, Dr Umar Ali and Dr Ihtezaz Hussain. Shaikh Zayed Hospital’s former chairman Prof Dr Anwar A. Khan also assisted the surgeons.

The operation had started at 6pm on Thursday and ended at 6am on Friday.

It was the fourth liver transplant performed in Pakistan. The three previous surgeries were carried by foreign doctors — two in Karachi six years ago and one in Lahore in April 2006.

Arsalan had been admitted to the hospital three days ago. He died of his wounds in the hospital’s intensive care unit late on Thursday night.

Arsalan’s father Naveed Anjum told the surgeons that his son had pledged to donate his liver.

 

[kugga]

So how much it costs??? I've heared that the cheapest operation is done in India which costs about 50 lakh PKR ....

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

i would imagine it would still not be afforded to many --especially the standard aam-aadmi.

some of these doctors should be assigned to give training to doctors working at the state-owned hospitals....but first, there needs to be enough funds allocation in order to pay the salaries and procure latest equipments.

these are areas where these so-called 'aid' moneys should go, rather than into swiss back accounts.


you cant put a price on lives --especially those that can be rehabilitated and saved.

 

[kugga]

i would imagine it would still not be afforded to many --especially the standard aam-aadmi.

some of these doctors should be assigned to give training to doctors working at the state-owned hospitals....but first, there needs to be enough funds allocation in order to pay the salaries and procure latest equipments.

these are areas where these so-called 'aid' moneys should go, rather than into swiss back accounts.


you cant put a price on lives --especially those that can be rehabilitated and saved.

So how much it costs ???

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

So how much it costs ???

an arm.....a leg........and a (donated) liver




























































(i don't know, i can try to find out.......you interested? )

 

[Doctor09]

it was the first succesful operation

it has been attempted before, but the first time the patient expired....due to malpractices. At least this is what i've been told from people more privvy to the details.

sir,i think you dont know about complications of operation thats why you saying such things......and dont blame doctors for everything if someone died during surgery is not always malpractice or things like that.... people blame doctors when someone dies but they dont appreciate when he saves thousands of lives....ONE thing is more that i want to tell u is that during transplant there are many chances of transplant rejection and severe immune reactions in recipient

 

[Doctor09]

correct.....he was not authorized to perform the operation and in fact, that patient later died due to related complications...

by the way, Congratulations on 1,000 posts, Sur.

complications and malpractice are two different things sir

 

[kugga]

an arm.....a leg........and a (donated) liver




























































(i don't know, i can try to find out.......you interested? )

of course I am interested in knowing how much it costs...... bandey da koi pata lagda a

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

sir,i think you dont know about complications of operation thats why you saying such things......and dont blame doctors for everything if someone died during surgery is not always malpractice or things like that

as per what i've been told, the doctor was not qualified to have carried out such an operation.....the fact that he fled from the country to avoid prosecution means that he was most likely guilty

I am not in the medical field. Again, i am basing what I know on what I heard or what i've been told by people who are more well-versed on the subject and well-versed on what happened.

complications and malpractice are two different things sir

when malpractice leads to complications, that's when ethical and legal issues arise

i do agree with your other points they must be taken into consideration; there is major risk involved in such complex procedures. Things dont always go as planned.

 

[Spring Onion]

Thank you. Yes, Alhamdolillah it was a smooth operation.


With regards to the 2006 transplant which was earlier mentioned, here are some facts (bitter ones).

In the 2006 case, it later became known that the doc did atempt a liver transplant, but he did it illegally. He wasnt even a liver transplant surgeon, nor was he qualified to do so. It wasnt a sucesful operation (the patient later died!)

That doctor (dont know his name) is on criminal list; he took his money and fled Pakistan as cases were being registered against him.


Dr. Tariq Ali Bangash (and his team) did the proper procedures and was qualified to do so. So Pakistan now officially has joined the club of nations where liver and other organ transplant/surgeries can be done. It is good because now patients will not have to travel overseas to get the procedure done.

as i said earlier, there is nothing that is stopping Pakistan from becoming a medical tourism destination. Hopefully one day it will be.

Thank you so much. pay my love to the entire team of doctors. Have lost mother of a very dear friend recently due to same reason as she needed liver transplant and it was so difficult to get treated in India owing to heavy prices and other such issues.

I am so glade. May Allah bless them all

 

[Spring Onion]

gift from the doctors......i'm just the bearer of good news

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