By taking just one pill a day, the medicine works by attacking the hepatitis C virus and blocking the enzymes it needs to multiply. Therapy with DAAs usually cures most people in only about 12 weeks!

And so the liver transplant does not cure you of hepatitis C. Now, you can be treated for hepatitis C before your liver transplant and then maybe you won't have it at the time of your transplant.

In other words, once identified, it is never too late to cure hepatitis C. After cure, symptoms go away and even in people who have liver scarring, the liver can regenerate and recover.

According to consultant gastroenterologist and hepatologist Dr Sheikh Anwar Abdullah, the most common types of hepatitis in Malaysia are B and C. Approximately one million people in Malaysia are ...