Chennai, July 18 -- In a groundbreaking achievement in healthcare, two hospitals in
Coimbatore have collaboratively performed India's first-ever inter-hospital swap liver
transplant, giving a new lease of life to two patients suffering from end-stage liver disease.
The complex procedure was successfully executed through a joint effort between Gem
Hospital and Sri Ramakrishna Hospital in Coimbatore, marking a historic medical feat that
required meticulous planning right from the stage of patient evaluation, donor-recipient
matching, comprehensive pre-operative optimization and unprecedented inter-institutional cooperation.
Addressing media here today, Gem Hospitals Founder and Chairman Dr.C.Palanivelu said
the patients, a 59-year-old...