A team of Chinese liver transplant surgeons will shortly visit Islamabad to attend a conference on liver disease and discuss with their Pakistani counterparts the latest developments in the relevant medical field, officials said. The team will include a renowned Chinese surgeon vice President of Tianjin First Central hospital Prof. Zhong Yang Shen, and two senior doctors Dr. Zhi Jun Zhu and Dr. Chen Pan. The Tianjin hospital recently set a record, conducting transplant surgery with a success ratio of about 95 percent. Hundreds of liver patients from various countries including Pakistan, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Spain, Korea and Egypt were operated upon in the recent years, officials said. There were 54 Pakistani patients who successfully went through liver transplant during 2005. Generally, a patient needs to stay in the hospital around three to four months. In normal cases, liver transplant cost around $60,000 including admission charges and medicines.
