Sri Lanka has performed its first ever pediatric liver transplant successfully at the Colombo North Teaching Hospital, recently.

Specialist surgeon Dr Rohan Siriwardena and a team of specialist Surgeon Island wide, have performed the surgery.

The liver transplant unit of the Colombo North Teaching Hospital performed this surgery which lasted more than 12 hours on a 9-year-old child, a resident of Jaffna, who was suffering from chronic cirrhosis, using a part of a her mother’s liver