Swathi Krishna discharged from hospital

KOCHI: Swathi Krishna, the 17-year-old student who successfully underwent a liver transplant after being in coma for a week, was discharged from hospital here on Tuesday.


The doctors taking care of Krishna at the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences have asked her family to restrict the number of visitors to limit the chances of infection. The surgery had caught the people’s imagination for various reasons-- Krishna’s aunt, Rainy Joy, volunteering to donate a slice of her liver; 54 documents necessary for organ donation getting ready within two days at the intervention of the Chief Minister Oommen Chandy and Health Minister V S Sivakumar, and the panchayat raising Rs17 lakh to meet the surgery expenses in a single day. Transplant surgeon K Sudheendra led the surgery.