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Thirty-five year old Mavis Owusu Asamoah of Kumasi has been diagnosed of End-Stage Renal Disease which requires kidney transplant at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital to save her.
A letter, signed by Dr. Vincent Bioma, Nephrologist at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital puts the cost of treatment at fifty-five thousand Ghana cedis (Ghc55,000), about US$29,000. The transplant surgery alone costs thirty-thousand Ghana cedis (Ghc30, 000).
Healthy Kidneys, approximately the size of your palm is responsible for the removal of extra fluid, minerals and wastes from the body. Kidney failure or End-Stage Renal Disease happens when your kidneys fail whilst harmful wastes build up in your body.
The best of all treatment for kidney failure patients, is kidney transplantation where a donated kidney is put into the body as a replacement.
While appealing to all and sundry to extend the necessary assistance to her, Dr. Bioma advised that the patient must continue treatment in order to stay alive.
Mavis has been undergoing haemodialysis on three-day interval as a first step. This means, she spends Ghc1, 000 weekly. This has drained family income, because her husband, the breadwinner has to abandon work to take care of her.
Mavis is lucky because someone is ready to donate a kidney, but the cost won’t let it happen.
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