New Delhi, July 8 -- A private hospital in New Delhi has achieved a global milestone by performing life-saving living donor liver transplants on 23-month-old twin brothers from the Philippines - the first paediatric twin liver transplant among the hospital's 645 paediatric liver transplants to date.

The complex back-to-back surgeries were led by Dr. Anupam Sibal, Group Medical Director & Senior Paediatric Gastroenterologist, and Dr. Neerav Goyal, Senior Consultant & Head of Liver Transplant Surgery.

A release said that the twins, Tyler and Kelly, were born prematurely, weighing 2 kg and 2.4 kg, bringing hope to a family that had earlier experienced the loss of an infant. However, within two weeks of birth, both babies developed persiste...