SOS message... from kidney patients

Two kidney patients at the LUTH need N5 million for kidney transplantADEBUKOLA Adeyemi, 28, was rushed down from Ghana where she had newly secured employment, Shukurat Bashiru, 15, was also brought back home from school by her teacher; both of them have been diagnosed with acute kidney and renal failure, after they ran into dreadful crises.
Since then, the two patients have been surviving on kidney life support at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) where they receive maintenance dialysis on a daily basis.
On each dialysis day, they spend a minimum of five to six hours under machines, and they over spend over N40, 000 and anybody visiting them in the dialysis room for the first time, would not be sure of their survival.
The two frail females were referred to the LUTH, where they could receive medical attention and dialysis for their health to stabilize.
However, after examining their affected kidneys, two consultant phrenologist in charge of renal and other related kidney problems at the LUTH, Dr Oladapo Taiwo and Dr C. O Amira, advised their family members to accept transplant as the best form of treatment for the two affected patients, if they are to give them an opportunity to lead a normal life again.
Meanwhile, they are allowed to come from their various homes for dialysis twice a week pending the time their family members are able to provide money for their kidney transplants.
This money their families have not been able to raise as they’ve been told that each transplant would cost about N5 million and the transplants have to be done on time because time was not on their side.
Unfortunately, due to the financial constraints and the resultant delay, their health conditions have worsened.  The dialyses that were done twice a week at the initial stage have been increased to almost everyday. The patients have also been hospitalized because of the risk of asking them to come from home everyday, thereby accruing additional expenses for their families
Adebukola who is an orphan, said that her family members have been having sleepless nights trying to raise N5 million for her transplant. She said that ever since the time she was rushed down from Ghana where she just gained employment through someone she had once worked for, her people have been selling their belongings in order to sustain her through the dialysis she now goes through almost on daily basis.
“My family spends over N45, 000 on each dialysis, this is additional expenses taken from whatever amount they may have gathered for my kidney transplant, in order to keep me alive.”
She said her younger ones have been looking up to her for support, hoping that once she was financially stable, she would be able to cater for them.
Shukurah, the teenager’s story is no different. The secondary school girl’s distressed mother, Bashirat Bashiru, lamented on where to get the N6 million written on her daughter’s medical report as the cost of replacing her daughter’s bad kidney, when her entire trading capital was less than N100, 000.
Weeping, the woman who is from State of Osun, said that she sells frozen foods at Ikorodu and her husband is a vulcanizer, and that their annual incomes put together would not meet their daughter’s needs.
The two patients who need urgent kidney transplants are looking up to the Almighty and kind-hearted Nigerians to come to their rescue.