Man gives up his liver and land to save his child in Bengaluru hospital : Report

To help pay the ₹15 lakh needed for the surgery, Babsha also had to sell land in Kolkata.

A resident of Bengal sold his land and donated part of his liver to treat his six-month-old son - who was diagnosed with biliary artesia - a rare liver disease that affects around 1 in 12,000 children - by doctors in Hooghly who referred him to a private medical facility in Bengaluru.

Surgeons in Bengaluru carried out a 12-hour operation that, happily, was successful and gave the child a new life.

When the man - identified by The Times of India as Suraj Babsha - reached Bengaluru he was asked to donate part of his liver - he agreed immediately - and, on August 23, surgeons carried out a 12-hour operation that, happily, was successful and gave the child a new life.

To help pay the ₹15 lakh needed for the surgery, Babsha also had to sell land in Kolkata.

"My son is alive... and this is what matters," he said.

According to the United States-based Johns Hopkins University, biliary atresia is a blockage in the tubes (ducts) that carry bile from the liver to the gallbladder. This congenital condition occurs when ducts inside or outside the liver do not develop normally.