The donor had wished to donate all his vital organs including the liver, pancreas, both kidneys, as well as eyes after death     The Pakistan Kidney and Liver Institute and Research Centre (PKLI) Lahore. — IDAP

ISLAMABAD: In a remarkable feat, transplant surgeons have successfully performed Pakistan’s first ‘split-liver transplant’ as well as the country’s first pancreatic transplant at the Pakistan Kidney and Liver Institute and Research Centre (PKLI) Lahore this week, officials said on Wednesday.

“With the help of liver donated by a young man, who was pronounced brain dead at a Rawalpindi hospital, we have performed Pakistan’s first split-liver transplant. We divided the vital organ into two and transplanted them to an adult and a little boy, who were facing liver failure,” Dean and Chief Executive Officer PKLI&RC Dr Faisal Saud Dar told ‘The News’.

Similarly, the pancreas of the deceased, a 32-year-old man, was transplanted to a Type-1 diabetes patient, Dr Faisal Dar said, adding that it was also the first pancreatic transplant in the history of Pakistan.

The donor, identified as Uzair Bin Yasin, had wished to donate all his vital organs including the liver, pancreas, both kidneys, as well as eyes after death, and they were used to save the lives of seven people in Rawalpindi and Lahore, he added.