Global Health City Lankan liver transplant patients reunite in Colombo

Dr. Gomathy Narasimhan - Senior Consultant, Transplant Surgeon (Hepato Pancreato Billiary and Liver Transplant), Global Health City, participated in the reunion of Sri Lankan patients who underwent liver transplantations at Global Health City, Chennai over the last four years.

“The reunion stands as a testimony to the fact that organ transplantation is a safe solution to address liver failure. Global Health City has to date performed liver transplantations on over 20 patients from Sri Lanka, apart from many complex liver and pancreatic surgeries,” said Forte International Chairman and CEO M.F.A. Riyas, sole representative for Global Hospitals in Sri Lanka.

The Organ transplant programmw of Global Health City is amongst the largest in South East Asia and caters to almost 20 countries in the SAARC, Middle East and African nations.

Amongst the unique features of the programme are: programmes performing a large number of both deceased donor and live donor liver transplants, largest number of procedures involving technical innovations such as split liver transplantations and auxiliary liver transplantations, smallest child (less than five kilograms) to undergo liver transplant at Global Health City, who was from Sri Lanka, first swap transplant at Global Health City was between two Sri Lankan families for Sri Lankan patients, pioneers in adult and paediatric liver transplants, having performed over 375 liver transplants in Chennai and 305 transplants at Global Hospital Hyderabad and 100 paediatric transplants, making Global Hospitals the largest centre for liver transplants, largest centre for combined liver and kidney transplant, the ability to perform complex liver and pancreas surgeries for tumours.

Speaking on the occasion Dr. Gomathy Narasimhan said, “It is wonderful to be able to see patients transplanted from a few years ago to a few months ago, both adults and children return to normalcy and enjoying a good quality of life. Children are back at school and adult patients are back to full productivity and taking care of their families. Definitely, they seem a lot more cheerful when seen with their families in their home country as opposed to seeing them as a patient in the hospital.”

“This is like a dream come true to see so many happy families getting back on track. This was our mission when we joined hands with Global Hospitals and our local doctors together, in order to provide the best of medical care to my Sri Lankan brothers and sisters,” said Riyas.

Global Health City, Chennai is a 500-bed, super specialty tertiary care facility, with a capacity to expand to 1000 beds.

Forte Pharmaceuticals (Pvt.) Ltd, launched as a new venture with fresh goals and aspirations in November 2005, is an organisation that has identified themselves as specialists in pharmaceuticals for keeping up with market trends and behaviour.

The whole genesis of starting the Global Hospital Information and Assistance Centre was to help Sri Lankan Patients reach quality hospitals at affordable costs in India. The idea was embarked when Forte Group of Companies Chairman Riyas came with his father-in-law to Global Health City, Chennai and realized the outcomes, ethics and quality of the institution. He returned to Colombo with a promise to direct Sri Lankan patients to the best hospitals in India, so that they got the best of care while travelling abroad.