The SGRH Liver Transplant Unit after being launched in 2001 has become one of the foremost state-of-the art facilities of its type in the Indian subcontinent. It provides a world-class service in cadaveric and living related liver transplantation with advanced infrastructure and experienced multidisciplinary team to support all aspects of the specialty. Our key strengths are internationally recognized faculty members who have been previously trained and have worked in the best centres abroad, operating rooms conforming to international standards and a dedicated Liver ICU which is second to none.

Best Liver Transplant Hospital in Delhi, India

Our centre has the distinction of performing

• India’s first successful reduced cadaveric liver transplant in a child
• India’s first successful liver transplant in a child suffering from fulminant liver failure
• India’s first combined liver and kidney transplant
• India’s first dual lobe transplant where a portion of the liver was removed from two different donors and transplanted into a single recipient
• India’s first living donor re-transplant.
• India’s first domino liver transplant
• World’s youngest domino liver transplant for Maple Syrup Urine Disease (MSUD)

Our department now serves as a regional centre for liver transplantation in the Indian subcontinent, with several successful transplants having been performed on foreign patients from neighbouring countries. We have taken some National initiatives for cadaveric organ donation which we hope will take shape in the near future enabling us to transplant more and more patients with end-stage liver disease.

Highlights of Liver Transplantation at our Institute

• A big team comprising of 4 senior surgeons, 3 senior fellows, senior residents, 5 dedicated anesthetists, 2 intensivists, 2 transplant hepatologists, 1 pediatric hepatologist, 2 transplant coordinators, a separate Liver ICU with 1:1 nursing ratio. The team is ably supported by an experienced Radiology, Nephrology, Cardiology and Pulmonology departments.
• Expertise in deceased donor (DDLT) and living donor liver transplantation (LDLT).
• Skills in adult & pediatric liver transplantation

Dr. (Prof.) Naimish N. Mehta

MBBS, MS, FACRSI, FAIS, FEBS, FALS (HPB)
Chairman, Centre for Digestive Sciences
Department of Surgical Gastroenterology,
(GI Surgery, HPB Surgery, Hepatology and Liver Transplantation)
Professor & Head Department of HPB & Liver Transplantation Surgery.
Mahatma Gandhi Medical College & Hospital, Jaipur.

Ex- Co-Chairman, Institute of Surgical Gastroenterology, GI-HPB Oncology and Liver Transplantation at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Delhi.

He has 22 years of experience in the field of Hepato- Pancreatico-Biliary (HPB) Surgery performing complex operations on the Liver, Bile Ducts and Pancreas. He has performed and has been part of more than 1500+ liver transplantation procedures which includes Adult and Paediatric (Child) Living Donor Liver Transplantation and combined Liver and Kidney Transplantation.

Dr. Mehta completed his graduate and post-graduate studies from University of Mumbai and then continued working in institutes of academic excellence in Mumbai for a period of six years before going to United Kingdom for advanced training. Dr. Mehta attained Fellowship in Liver Transplantation while working at major Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic and Liver Transplantation centres in London, Leeds and Birmingham, United Kingdom (UK).

He then joined the esteemed Surgical Gastroenterology and Liver Transplant Unit at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital as a Consultant and is now running a successful Liver Transplantation unit as the Chief Surgeon.

Dr. Mehta is a Fellow of Association of Colo-Rectal Surgeons of India and a of member of Indian Association Surgical Gastroenterologists, Association of Surgeons of India, Indian National Association of Study of Liver, Indian Society of Organ Transplantation and International Liver Transplantation Society.

Dr. Mehta has authored or co-authored numerous peer-reviewed articles on a spectrum of GI surgery, Hepato-biliary-pancreatic and Liver transplantation topics. In addition, he has given scientific presentations at national and international meetings and has been invited as a speaker/faculty in various conferences. He serves as a peer reviewer for the Cochrane Library publications.

His current interests include Liver transplantation, Acute Liver Failure and Liver Cancer.