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Man’s life depends on urgent kidney transplant
Mr Abdool Raffi Khan
Forty-three-year-old Abdool Raffi Khan has been made to face the challenges of living with two failing kidneys and may even succumb if he does not undergo an urgent kidney transplant.
During an interview with this newspaper yesterday, Khan who is being accommodated at the Muslim Youth Organisation (MYO), Woolford Avenue, said that he is appealing to some suitable member of the public to donate a kidney to save his life.
According to the man, the transplant operation will be facilitated by the Central Islamic Organisation of Guyana (CIOG) leaving him with the task of soliciting a donor.
Khan, who hails from Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara, is a father of four boys whose ages range from 14 to two.
And according to him, his wife, Parbattie, and the boys had accompanied him some two years ago when he took up an appointment at the MYO as a live-in caretaker.
Khan disclosed that all was going well for him and his family until about six months ago when he developed a noticeable loss of appetite which consequently resulted in him losing weight rapidly.
The situation, he said, was compounded when he started suffering from shortness of breath, a development which saw him being rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation.
And it was while at the hospital, Khan noted, that doctors detected the problem with his kidneys. It was, however, initially thought that the problem was treatable, Khan related, but disclosed that during his last visit at the hospital about three weeks ago, the doctors informed him that there was nothing further that they could do for him.
According to the man, the doctors advised him that the only way to prolong his life would be to have a kidney transplant.
Khan said that neither his wife nor other adult relatives are compatible with his blood type, hence the appeal to the public to be able to secure a suitable donor.
For the past two weeks, Khan has been receiving dialysis treatment through the CIOG but emphasised that the treatment would be of no worth if his appeal goes unheeded.
Anyone willing to donate a kidney to Khan can contact him on telephone number 225-1233 or 612-4963.
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