Happiness, contentment and hope were theirs, when into their lives came Sonakshi, their tiny baby girl on January 25. Sonakshi needed a liver transplant and so far Sri Lanka has not performed a transplant in such a tiny baby. (The Sunday Times exclusively reported this trailblazin g event in an article headlined ‘Child liver transplant, a medical first’ on July 26, 2020.) Dissanayake, Dean, & Prof. Shaman Rajindrajith, Professor of Paediatrics, of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo; and the CNCLD team. The most important participants at the simple function were Sonakshi’s Amma and Thaththa, Shalika and Mahesh for whom their baby girl would live on in the lives that will be saved by the CNCLD.

Source: Sunday Times October 31, 2021 06:39 UTC