26 July 2020 02:59 pm
The surgery was performed on July 14 by specialist surgeon Dr Rohan Siriwardena and a team of specialist surgeons islandwide.
The liver transplant unit of the Colombo North Teaching Hospital performed this surgery which lasted more than 12 hours on a 9-year-old child, a resident of Jaffna, who was suffering from chronic cirrhosis, using a part of a her mother’s liver.(P.H.P.Perera)