Successful living donor liver transplant of seven patients was performed at the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT) in the previous week. According to SIUT, transplant surgeries were jointly performed by two visiting surgeons from Iran and three surgeons from SIUT. “Iranian surgeons from Shiraz visited SIUT and carried out surgeries. All the surgeries were free of cost as a part of the institute’s philosophy to provide all treatment ‘free with dignity’,” the issued statement read. According to the details, patients who went through liver transplants included two minors with age group ranging between 10 and 11. The rest of the five patients were adults. “All the patients represented low income groups who had traveled from Southern Punjab, Baluchistan and Sindh’s districts to Karachi. They were in no position to bear the heavy cost of liver transplant surgeries privately,” said the statement. The hospital authorities said that donors were doing well. Kidney transplant is the flagship of SIUT as they have carried over 5000 procedures ever since the program was initiated in 1985. Published in Daily Times, June 12th 2018.