 Hello, my name is Dr. Sanjay Govil. I am a senior consultant in hepatobiliary surgery and liver transplantation at the Manipal Hospital's Bangalore on the Old Airport Road. So as a recipient of a new liver, you would need to stay in hospital somewhere between two to three weeks, that is for the vast majority of patients. Sometimes patients who develop certain complications, particularly infection, may have to stay for a little bit longer in an effort to overcome the, to treat the complication. As far as if you are a living donor of a liver, then the donor is usually able to leave hospitals around the seventh or the eighth day, by which time they are, you know, pretty well and their liver functions are nearly back to normal.