Ragama hospital performs country’s first successful paediatric liver transplant

Sri Lanka’s first paediatric liver transplant was successfully performed at the Colombo North Teaching Hospital at Ragama on 14 July. The hospital released information about the operation to the media, yesterday.

The surgery was successfully performed by a team of specialist surgeons led by surgeon Professor Rohan Siriwardena on July 14.

The liver transplant unit of the Colombo North Teaching Hospital performed the surgery on a nine-year-old girl who was suffering from chronic liver cirrhosis, using a part of the liver of a living donor, her 38-year-old mother.

The operation that lasted more than 12 hours.

Speaking to media, Deputy Director of the Colombo North Teaching Hospital Dr. Sarath Premasiri said the hospital had performed about 50 human liver transplants but Kishnu’s surgery was the first paediatric surgery.