India is fast becoming the land of medical miracles. Eight-month-old Akshu’s grim battle with liver failure bore fruit after she underwent a successful liver transplant in a New Delhi hospital, to become the youngest and perhaps the smallest ever such a recipient in India.
The emotional father Anil Kumar who is a jawan in the Army declared, “We had given up on hope. But I don't know how to pay gratitude to the doctors. Only a father can understand that.”
Akshu hospitalized with jaundice and intestinal bleeding
Akshu had been born with a biliary atresia, a condition in which a duct linking the liver to the small intestine is missing.
It affects about one in 12,000 babies across the world.
The little girl was grossly undernourished and weighed only 5 kg when she was admitted into the hospital on September 23.
