India, Aug. 29 -- The Maharashtra public health department on Thursday appointed an eight-member high-level committee to investigate the deaths of a couple following a liver transplant surgery at Sahyadri Super Speciality Hospitals, Deccan.

The committee will be headed by Prof Dr Mohamed Rela, renowned liver transplant surgeon and President of the International Liver Transplant Society, Chennai.

Other members include Dr Ram Prabhu, liver transplant surgeon at KEM Hospital, Mumbai; Dr Rahul Pandit, intensivist and former vice-president of Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine (ISCCM); Dr Vasant Nagvekar, infectious diseases specialist and secretary of the National ID Society of India; Dr Vijay Vohra, pioneer in liver transplant anesth...