<span style="color: #333333;">President Ram Nath Kovind today interacted with the parents of the infants in the Philippines who successfully underwent liver transplant in India.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #333333;">The President expressed happiness about India's engagement with the key Southeast Asian country that has brought people's causes within its expanding ambit.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #333333;">In the last 28 months, 35 babies from the Philippines have undergone successful liver transplant in India as a part of the Philippines-India Pediatric Liver Transplant Program. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #333333;">The President said that the Indian medical institutions were working with their counterparts in the Philippines to see how the success rate could be improved while bringing down the costs of similar transplants in the Philippines.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #333333;">President Kovind arrived in Manila on Thursday as part of his five-day state visit to the Philippines and Japan.</span><br />''