{"id":6741,"date":"2014-07-11T12:29:13","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T12:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/07\/11\/schoolgirl-gets-four-liver-transplants-in-one-year\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T13:53:59","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T13:53:59","slug":"schoolgirl-gets-four-liver-transplants-in-one-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2014\/07\/11\/schoolgirl-gets-four-liver-transplants-in-one-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Schoolgirl Gets Four Liver Transplants in One Year"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Eight-Year-Old Habiba Bibi \u201cA Little Miracle\u201d<\/h3>\n

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A Birmingham based school girl has been called \u201ca little miracle\u201d after undergoing a total of four liver transplants in just over a year. <\/div>\n

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Eight-year-old Habiba Bibi had her first operation in 2001, however when her organs began to fail the following year, she was rushed to hospital to have three more liver transplants in 13 days. \u00a0<\/div>\n

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Worried parents, Farzana Younas, 37, and Amjib Mahmood, 41, were told she had three days to live \u201cunless they found a donor.\u201d <\/div>\n

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Mother Farzana said, \u201cMy husband started planning her funeral when they broke the news. We were in tears and didn\u2019t think they would find another liver in time. But by some miracle they did.\u201d<\/div>\n

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\u201cHabiba had her first transplant aged five after she was diagnosed with the condition biliary atresia as a newborn. But just over a year later she began feeling unwell, suffering pains in her stomach and tiredness. Tests showed she had cysts on her liver and she needed a new one urgently.\u201d<\/div>\n

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\u201cHabiba was put on the transplant list and within days a match was found and she underwent surgery\u00a0at Birmingham Children\u2019s Hospital\u00a0on November 2012. But medics broke the news that the organ had failed to work \u2013 and that another transplant was needed.\u201d<\/div>\n

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\u201cShe was at the top of the list in England waiting for a liver. Another donor was found and she received her third liver.\u201d\u00a0<\/div>\n

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\u201cHowever, there was a lack of blood flow to the organ because her blood was clotting \u2013 she would need yet another transplant. Nine days later she was given her fourth liver transplant \u2013 and is now thriving.\u201d<\/div>\n

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\u201cWe wondered whether her body could survive it all. But on the fourth attempt it did work.\u201d<\/div>\n

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\u201cWhen Habiba woke up four weeks after her final transplant she was unable to speak and used sign language to communicate. Two weeks later she said her first words. \u201cShe whispered \u2018mum and dad\u2019, and we had tears in our eyes.\u201d<\/div>\n

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\u00a0\u201cNow Habiba\u2019s a chatterbox,\u201d laughed Farzana.<\/div>\n

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\u201cShe is full of energy and is doing very well at school \u2013 in fact she\u2019s on the same level as her brother who is one year older than her. She does get tired and I have to watch her, but she is back to her usual self.<\/div>\n

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\u201cWe\u2019ve had so much help and support from the hospital and the Children\u2019s Liver Disease Foundation (CLDF).\u201d<\/div>\n

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Alison Taylor, Chief Executive of CLDF, said: \u201cWe support families throughout the UK who are affected by childhood liver disease and this is the first time we have come across a child who has received four liver transplants.<\/div>\n

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\u201cWe have been inspired by Habiba\u2019s bravery and also by her family\u2019s commitment to raising awareness and funds for CLDF to help other children in her situation. We\u2019re delighted that she is now back at school and wish her and her family the very best.\u201d<\/div>\n

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Habiba\u2019s consultant Jane Hartley, at Birmingham Children\u2019s Hospital, said: \u201cIt is very rare for anyone to have four liver transplants especially children. This liver is working very, very well and I hope she will not need another transplant.\u2019\u2019<\/div>\n

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Eight-Year-Old Habiba Bibi \u201cA Little Miracle\u201d A Birmingham based school girl has been called \u201ca little miracle\u201d after undergoing a total of four liver transplants in just over a year. \u00a0 Eight-year-old Habiba Bibi had her first operation in 2001, however when her organs began to fail the following year, she was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}