‘The father would donate his liver to the daughter in the operation to be conducted” HYDRABAD:The Andhra Pradesh government has announced that it would bear the expenses of the treatment of the daughter of Ramanappa and Saraswati, who had earlier appealed to a court seeking mercy killing of the eight-month-old baby girl.

The agricultural labourers, belonging to RS Kothapalli village in the state's Chitoor district, were unable to afford the surgery required on the infant.

State Health Minister Kamineni Srinivas took up the matter with Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, who announced that help would be provided to the child from the Chief Minister's Relief Fund.

The baby was taken to a liver specialist Mohammed Rela, who suggested that she needed a liver transplant surgery urgently, the release added, adding, the father would donate his liver to the daughter in the operation to be conducted in a major hospital in Chennai next Monday.

Officials have completed all arrangements for the surgery to be performed in Chennai, it said.