MANILA, Philippines — President Duterte has vowed to help in the operation of a two-year-old girl with biliary atresia at the National Kidney and Transplant Institute (NKTI) in Quezon City. To allow more Filipinos to avail themselves of organ transplants, Duterte said he wants the surgery to be done at the NKTI instead of abroad. On Wednesday, Duterte met with the parents of biliary atresia patient Sophie Aguilo and urged them to allow the liver transplant to be done locally. Biliary atresia is a condition in infants in which the bile ducts outside and inside the liver are scarred and blocked. Pedriatric liver transplants will be done through the partnership of PCMC and TMC until the time when NKTI can solely perform pediatric and adult living donor liver transplants.

Source: Philippine Star January 18, 2020 15:56 UTC