Hyderabad’s Osmania Hospital doctors perform liver transplant on toddler with rare metabolic disorder

Doctors astatine the Osmania General Hospital (OGH), Hyderabad person successfully performed a uncommon surviving donor liver transplant connected a one-year-ten-month-old babe diagnosed with Glycogen Storage Disease (GSD) Type III, a uncommon inherited metabolic upset that tin pb to recurrent hypoglycaemia, liver enlargement and progressive organ harm if near untreated.

The transplant was performed escaped of outgo nether the Aarogyasri Health scheme, a process that would person different outgo betwixt ₹50 lakh and ₹60 lakh astatine a backstage hospital. Carried retired connected Tuesday (April 28, 2026), the country progressive transplanting astir 240 grams of liver insubstantial donated by the child’s begetter and lasted astir 14 hours.