In Singapore, a father once incarcerated and burdened by addiction found that his son's rare and failing liver became the very reason to reclaim his own health. Noel Joshua Selvanathan, carrying hepatitis C and fatty liver disease, transformed his body and habits so completely that he became the only viable donor for three-year-old Isaiah, who was born with Alagille syndrome — a condition affecting one in 70,000 people that leaves the liver unable to clear its own waste. What medicine required of the father, love made possible; and what love made possible, medicine completed. The story stands
Father transforms life to donate liver to son with rare genetic disorder
Isaiah, a 3-year-old child with life-threatening Alagille syndrome, required urgent liver transplantation to survive; his mother was unable to donate due to spleen complications.