Mumbai: Aunt gives nine month old a new lease on life

Updated On: 14 September, 2022 07:41 AM IST | Mumbai | Suraj Pandey

Donates part of her liver; infant becomes western India’s youngest ABO-incompatible liver transplant patient, less than 5 such cases reported across the globe

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The team involved in the surgery, with Visavadia and her husband Jay Vyas, Vayu and his parents Henal and Nirav Visavadia, and Dr Anurag Shrimal (to Nirav’s right) and Dr Vibhor Borkar (fifth from left)

At a time when newly-weds are thinking of a new life, a new family and home, Vidhi Visavadia, 26, took the brave and tough decision of donating part of her liver, to save her nephew. On the third day after her wedding ceremony on February 22, Visavadia asked her husband and in-laws if she could do so, and they supported her. Her nephew, Vayu, nine months old during the surgery performed at the Nanavati Max Super-speciality Hospital, became western India’s youngest ABO-incompatible liver transplant patient. According to doctors, less than 5 such cases are reported in the medical literature across the globe.

An aunt’s love

Visavadia learnt of the baby’s plight through relatives after her wedding ceremony. She had not been told about it before due to the wedding. “I decided this was an opportunity to save the life of a child by donating part of my liver,” said Visavadia who works in a firm but has taken a break due to the surgery.

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