During a Zoom call, the senator greeted the child’s parents and the doctors behind the liver transplant. The agreement gave way to the creation of the Pediatric Access to Liver Transplant or PasLit program. Baby Sophie is the program’s first beneficiary and one of the hospital’s few liver transplant recipients to date. Dr. Vanessa de Villa, head of TMC’s Center for Liver Disease Management andTransplantation, credited the success of liver transplant to the expertise and preparedness of the hospital’s liver transplant medical team and the cooperation and support given by various sectors to the patient and her family. Go said he hopes that more Filipino patients with liver diseases will be treated by Filipino doctors in the future.

Source: Manila Times December 18, 2020 16:30 UTC