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Chua: Try Selayang Hospital for liver illness

KUALA KUBU BARU: Patients seeking liver transplants should go to the Selayang Hospital as it has the best facilities and skilful doctors for liver-related illnesses, Health Minister Datuk Dr Chua Soi Lek said.
“Although the hospital has achieved much success in this type of surgery, not much publicity has been given to it compared to private hospitals.
“If I’m not mistaken, there have been six successful liver transplants at the hospital,” he said after distributing ang pow and foodstuff to the poor in Kampung Chuang, Rasa, here yesterday.
Dr Chua was asked to comment on the case of 14-month-old Mohd Yohit Mohd Farhan.
After undergoing a liver transplant operation at a local medical centre recently, Yohit developed complications and was admitted to the Gleneagles Hospital in Singapore, where he died on Saturday.