Aquiro Jazz “Baby Aki” Detablan, who underwent a liver transplant through fundraising efforts, died at the Apollo Hospital in India on Monday, July 22. Baby Aki fought his tough battle against biliary atresia, a chronic liver disease he was diagnosed with last October 2018. READ: Laguna dad sells banana cakes for baby’s P1.6M liver transplantOn May 20, the Detablan family flew to India after raising P1.6 million for the operation. Aki celebrated his first birthday in the Apollo Hospital last June 22 and underwent a liver transplant with his donor mom last July 5. After the wake, the Detablan family will travel to their hometown in Bicol where baby Aki will be brought to his final resting place.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer July 25, 2019 03:22 UTC