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Liver transplant still unaffordable despite spiking cases

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The liver is one of the crucial body organs responsible for immunity, digestion, metabolism, and any liver illness or sickness. [iStockphoto]

About two years ago, Anne Loko was diagnosed with cryptogenic chronic liver failure, the name doctors give to liver disease for which the cause is unknown.

With no other option, she went through a liver transplant. A liver transplant is surgery to replace a diseased liver with a healthy liver from another person. A whole liver may be transplanted, or just part of one.

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