Latest update November 30th, 2024 12:03 AM
Kidney patient seeks assistance for transplant
Vishudyal Persaud
Vishudyal Persaud, 58, of 14 Third Street, Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara, after being diagnosed with Polycystic Kidney disease and chronic renal failure, is appealing to the public for assistance to secure funds to travel to India for a kidney transplant.
According to Persaud, he first discovered he had problems with his kidney a decade ago, however, at first it was only kidney stones, and as time passed his Kidneys got worse.
“I have pain every day; I get cramps, blurred vision, severe chest and abdominal pains, and poor circulation.” Persaud exclaimed. “I have not worked for years since my sickness.”
Persaud added that he is a member of the medical outpatient department clinic of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). And according to doctors at the hospital, Persaud said that he was told that his case might be related to genetics.
“I don’t want it to be too late…and I have to be taking dialysis every week, I am a poor man that needs help.”
The kidney, most might know, filters out from our blood, several toxic by-products of the body’s metabolism. We excrete these products in our urine. In renal failure this filtering capability is gradually lost so that the toxic substances accumulate in the body with their ultimate fatal consequences.
The ultimate treatment of a kidney transplant costs approximately US$150,000 each in the US and US$35,000 in India. And according to Persaud, the Ministry of Health is willing to assist him with US$5,000.
Persaud can be contacted on telephone number, 222- 3843.
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