Click to play videoNew Delhi: Twenty-two-month-old Shaurya barely knows what is going on and yet he's got a fresh lease of life; thanks to a liver transplant from his aunt using 20 per cent of her liver.
“He was on a ventilator on the seventh day of his life. As a mother it was very difficult to see him suffer,” says Shaurya’s mother Niti Sahay.
Shaurya's liver lacked a particular enzyme that aids in digestion. It's a condition called maple syrup urine disease but with this transplant he is going to be fine.
And, he has already saved the life of another toddler with a transplant from his liver.
“In Domini the person undergoing liver transplant can also donate his liver to someone else,” says Liver Transplant Physician, Dr Neelam Mohan.
Siya is just two-year-and-nine-month old but suffers a rare medical condition called Langerhan's Cell HistioCytosis or LCH.
For Siya, the chemotherapy she is undergoing because of her condition had begun to take a toll on her liver.
Siya and Shaurya have a new lease of life, thanks to what's known as a Domino liver transplant - where a patient who gets a liver transplant himself donates his liver to someone else.
It is not very common at all, but what these children will really be focusing on now is life outside the hospital.
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