Liver surgery paid for
PA Hamilton The Hamilton liver transplant patient, Regan Chibnali, will fly out of Auckland airport at 7.45 a.m. on Tuesday with his life-saving surgery paid for. Yesterday morning the member of Parliament for Hamilton West, Mr Trevor Mallard, announced the Government had apS roved a grant of St,ooo to assist with the surgery’s $70,000 bill. Regan, aged two, suffers from a progressive deteriorating liver condition which means he must have a transplant or die. He needs to go to
Australia for the surgery because liver transplants are not performed In New Zealand. Once there he may have to wait a month or two before a suitable liver becomes available. After the surgery he will probably stay In Brisbane for another month at least before he Is able to return to New Zealand. His doctor, a Waikato Hospital paediatrician, Mr David Bourchier, has described the surgery as “very prolonged and difficult” which needs a specially trained team such as the one based at Brisbane’s Royal Children’s Hospital.
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