Claire Murray's live liver transplant operation took 12 hours in Singapore last night (ABC News )
A 24-year-old former drug addict mother who was refused a second liver transplant in Australia has undergone potentially life-saving surgery in Singapore.
Perth woman Claire Murray underwent a 12-hour operation in Singapore last night.
She received part of a liver from her aunt, who is reported to be doing well.
Doctors say it will be 48 hours before they know whether Ms Murray's liver transplant operation has been successful.
Ms Murray is a former drug addict who was refused a place on a transplant waiting list after she received a donor organ last year before relapsing into drug addiction.
The mother of two young children had been told she only had months to live.
The Western Australian Government agreed to loan Ms Murray's family $250,000 to pay for the operation.
The Government was criticised over the move, but Premier Colin Barnett defended the decision, saying the loan was a one-off offer.
He said the Government would not be making a habit of lending money for operations.
"The case of the young woman needing a liver transplant is being treated as a one-off situation on its own merits, so any situation would be looked at individually and we're not about creating precedents," he said earlier this month.
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