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Kidney transplant patient leaves for India
From Left Mother - Shureen Ragbeer; Jeanette Singh, Head of the Foundation; Transplant Patient – Satish Gobin; and his father – James Gobin
– Courtesy of Three-Rivers Foundation
Nineteen-year-old Satish Gobin, and his mother, Shureen Ragbeer, were scheduled to leave for New Delhi, India, this morning for a kidney transplant operation that would save Satish’s life. Shureen will donate one of her kidneys to her son.
Satish will travel to Toronto first, spend one night for a fund-raising event, before continuing to Delhi for the urgent kidney transplant operation. The trip to India and the operation itself has been made possible, thanks to the Three Rivers Kids Foundation and many generous donors of cash from USA and Canada.
The teenager from Anna Catherina, West Demerara, had been diagnosed in February this year with chronic renal failure and his family desperately tried to raise the money for his kidney transplant.
The symptoms that showed up at home, led to Satish being taken to the West Demerara Regional Hospital, before being transferred to the Georgetown Public Hospital. There he was diagnosed with chronic renal failure and told of the necessity of having a transplant. His story was published locally and the Three Rivers Kids Foundation picked it up.
Head of the organisation, Jeanette Singh, told the media yesterday that the surgery will be done at the Pushpawati Singhania Research Institute for Liver, Renal and Digestive Diseases (PSRI Hospital) in New Delhi, a hospital that has had a 100 per cent success rate for these and other types of operations.
Head of the kidney transplant team is Dr. Rajeev Sood, Senior Consultant Kidney Transplant.
The cost for the operation itself is between US$10,000 and US$15,000.
The air fares for Satish and his parents cost about US$7,500. Food and accommodation for the six-week stay in India would come up to nearly US$2,000.
At the end of it all, Satish will be using some US$500 monthly, for medication that he is going to need for the rest of his natural life. This will be provided by the foundation for as long as they are able to.
The teenager will be provided with specific instructions for follow up tests which can hopefully be done locally. If any issues arise, the doctor will contact the Foundation, who will in turn contact the doctors in India. If the issue is serious enough and he has to fly back to India, the Foundation is prepared to do this.
In any event, he will be taken there for periodic tests. Once he is fine after the surgery, this will be done once every three years.
Meanwhile, Head of the Foundation, Jeanette Singh, has urged the general public to be cautious when responding to appeals of this type. The Foundation has experienced occasions where unscrupulous persons solicit money for their own means, using this kind of situation to raise funds for their own personal greed. She advised persons who want to donate to exercise some measure of caution and ask questions.
“Ask for documentation. This is a big concern, use your common sense. Ask for a telephone number,” she appealed.
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