Doctors looking for liver donor for Deshmukh

Ex-Maha chief minister had been on and off the ventilator before being prepared for a transplant.

Doctors treating Union Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh for a serious liver ailment are looking for a liver donor to carry out a transplant on him,hospital sources said on Tuesday.

An attempt to harvest liver from a brain dead donor from a government hospital here had proved futile as the man died before doctors could operate on him last night,they said.

A team from Global Hospitals,where Deshmukh was admitted on August 6,had planned to retrieve the liver from the 31-year-old donor at the hospital,but he died,forcing them to look for another donor,the sources said.

The hospital is looking for a liver donor, they said.

Asked whether they were desperately looking for a liver,they said,In a way,yes.

The 67-year-old former Maharashtra chief minister had shown signs of improvement and been on and off the ventilator before being prepared for a transplant,the sources said.

Deshmukh was brought from Mumbai in an air ambulance in a critical condition.

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