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I Was Acute Hepatitis B Patient: Amitabh Bachchan

Darpan News Desk IANS, 23 Nov, 2015 10:59 AM
  • I Was Acute Hepatitis B Patient: Amitabh Bachchan
Megastar and Unicef ambassador for Hepatitis B awareness programme Amitabh Bachhan on Monday said he was an acute patient of hepatitis B himself and had almost lost 75 percent of his liver due to late diagnosis of the disease.
 
Speaking during a hepatitis B media awareness campaign, he said during the shooting of his movie 'Cooli' he had met with an injury, for which around 200 people had donated blood as per the medical requirement. 
 
One of the donors was a carrier of hepatitis B due to which he too suffered from the disease, he revealed.
 
"By the time it was diagnosed, only one fourth of my liver was left," said Bachchan in a video released to support the awareness campaign kicked off by the union health ministry and Unicef.
 
However, he said that though he was lucky enough to get the perfect treatment and get cured in time, there were many in the country who didn't have the resources to even get diagnosed.
 
On the occasion, Bachchan also said he would be happy to interact with the field workers who work at the ground level for raising public awareness in the remote areas of the country.

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