Another patient dies after liver transplant surgery in Kobe

Photo taken in April 2015 shows the Kobe International Frontier Medical Center in the western Japanese city of Kobe, which opened in November 2014. A fifth patient died on June 5, 2015, after undergoing liver transplant surgery at the hospital, where four patients previously died within a month of undergoing surgery, the hospital said the same day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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