Cheap liver transplants at Selayang Hospital going from free to RM3,000

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Cheap liver transplants at Selayang Hospital going from free
to RM3,000

by M. K. Megan me...@nstp.com.my

FIRST WAVE ... Chua talking to Chee On, now recuperating
from a liver transplant, the first to be carried out by the
Selayang Hospital. With them is the liver donor , the boy's
mother Au

May 17: Liver transplants, which normally cost RM350,000 in
private hospitals or overseas, costs only RM500 at the
Selayang Hospital which carried out its first such operation
last month. This was the fee is heavily subsidised by the
Government. The RM500 fee is for patients in third class
wards while first class patients pay RM3,000. It is free for
government servants and their dependents.

In fact, the first transplant carried out there last month
was free as Au Yek Hah, 41, who donated part of her liver to
her nine-year-old son Lau Chee Onn, is a government servant.

She is with the pharmaceutical department of the Kuching
Hospital.

Lau is suffering from Wilson's disease which affects the
liver, kidneys, brain, bones and blood.

The transplant at the Selayang Hospital on April 10,
involved 40 medical personnel, headed by surgeon Harjit
Singh and took about 19 hours.

However, the hospital could undertake only one living
related transplantation (from a living person to a patient)
case a month, Health Minister Datuk Chua Jui Meng said
today..

For cadaveric transplants, operations can be carried out
anytime a donor is found, he said.

"We are looking to gradually increasing the frequency of
operations to once a week in the near future," he said.

The waiting list for transplants stands at 200.

Selayang Hospital is the only government hospital to perform
liver transplant operations. The privately-run Subang Jaya
Medical Centre, which is believed to be the only Malaysian
hospital doing liver transplants, had performed 37
paediatric life liver transplants since 1995.

The charges for liver transplant surgery package at SJMC
starts from RM265,000 and can exceed RM350,000 if there are
post-surgery complications.

Chua said more than a quarter of the 2,000-plus people who
suffer from liver problems every year are children, and
between 200 and 350 of them can benefit from a transplant.

Registered donors have increased to 53,000 this year
compared with 2,500 in 1996.

The Selayang Hospital has four Australia-trained surgeons,
and five ante- and post-operation care specialists attached
to the liver transplant unit.

Among the medical personnel involved in the first surgery
are Harjit Singh, Krishnan Raman, Dr Wong Chee Ming, Zakaria
Zahari, Ranjit Singh, Dr Abdul Hakim Mohamad, Dr Hashim
Yacob, Dr Sushila Subramaniam, Dr S. Thavaranjitham, Dr
Nurhayati Mokhty, Dr Faridah Md Saleh, Dr Wahidah Abdullah,
Dr Tengku Norita Tengku Yazid, Dr Noor Kaslina Kornain, Dr
Lim Chooi Bee and Dr Tan Soek Siam.

Three overseas consultants were also involved. They are
Professor S.T. Fan, and Professor Yong Boon Hun, both from
Hong Kong, and Professor Russel W. Strong from Australia.

Chua was speaking to reporters after launching the Liver
Transplant Centre at the Selayang Hospital, for which
Maybank Bhd had donated RM5 million.

Maybank chairman Tan Sri Mohamed Basir Ahmad presented the
cheque.

Present were Selangor Health Department director Datin Dr
Shahidah Abdul Manaff, National Transplant Co-ordinating
Committee member Datuk Lee Lam Thye and Selangor Health
Committee chairman Datuk Tang See Hang.

Chua said the Government had spent RM2.9 million buying
equipment for the liver transplant centre, and has allocated
28 beds for such patients and another four beds in the high
dependency unit.

[saad...@gmail.com]

can you please share the contact details of the hospital and doctors?

[saad...@gmail.com]

My Aunt is having a problem with her lever and we want to make her lever transplant. She lives in Pakistan and we can make her treatment in Singapore.

Please send me the details of requirement and charges which are required for Lever Transplant. Also let me know the charges if you will arrange the Lever donar and the charges if we will take any donar with us.

Your earliest response will be highly appreciable.


Regards,

Saad
Cell: +966 (0) 53 494 1230

[shivani....@gmail.com]

hello can i get the details
my uncle is severely suffering from liver failure
his condition is too bad that it is affecting his brain
urgently need to do livertransplant
i want to get the details soo i can proceed
please help :(

[abdullah]

Guaranteed that you going in head first and leg out from the mortuary. Malaysia qualified doctors from the universities have dubious capabilities.

[marag...@gmail.com]

Hi sir, my office colleague Mt Yong Wai Tim is warded at HDW And today by God grace been shifted him to normal ward. Doctor have recommended to proceed with liver transplant.


Hope to here favorable reply.

Best regards,
Maragatam.
H/P 1027379628

[marag...@gmail.com]

[imran....@gmail.com]

Hi,

My elder brother suffering from Liver choronic disease named BUDD CHIARI Syndrome. Because of that his liver not functioning properly. He is 38 years old. Can you share with me the doctors and hospital contact details as now i m in malaysia and interested to meet and discuss regarding the possible liver trasnplant options with the expenses details as well.

Waiting for your prompt response anxiously. My contact number in malaysia is 011-23791722.

Regards

[skala...@gmail.com]

hello can i get the details

my brother age 43 is severely suffering from liver failure

[sivathan...@gmail.com]

can i get the details

my brother is severely suffering from liver problem by hepatitis B virus attacked , his condition is too bad urgently need to do liver transplant

i want to get the details soo i can proceed

please help! please help!

[drpunesh...@gmail.com]

Please my dad no known medical illness.not an alcoholic but recently only diagnosed with liver cirrhosis. Please could you help him with liver transplant? I'm a government servant

[inkh...@gmail.com]

Can Someone tell me the procedure about liver transplant there?

I am from Nepal. My patient needs a liver transplant immediately. Patient is suffering from Hepatites C, Alcoholic Cirrhosis. I have living doner( a family friend) with matching blood group.

Can Nepali citizen undergo this surgery there?
Please help him

Ichhya Khadka