INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
BAJURA, FEBRUARY 25Twenty-two-year-old kidney patient Ram Prasad Jaisi of Budhiganga
Municipality, Bajura, has been struggling for life for want of treatment expenses.
Penniless mother brings injured son home
Health services affected for want of staffers
A relative, Madan Raj Joshi, said that Ram Prasad was left
in the lurch after both his kidneys went dysfunctional
He stays in a rented room in Bhaktapur
He is receiving treatment at Sahid Dharmabhakta National Transplant Centre, Bhaktapur.
According to the hospital, Ram
Prasad has to undergo kidney transplant surgery.The hospital provides free dialysis service twice a week
He still needs extra fund as he needs more than two dialysis a week.Ram Prasad needs financial help for medicines, food and for additional
dialysis even though the hospital provides him free dialysis service twice a week
His kidneys stopped working eight years ago and he has been on medication for six years, but the medicines have also turned out to be
ineffective in recent years
Ram Prasad's mother Jaimati Devi Jaisi said that she had no way to manage fund for her son's treatment.He said due to his sickness his
mother always looks worried and depressed
Twelfth grader Ram Prasad was good in studies when he was at school
He added that his friends were engaged in government jobs and his dream of making his mother happy after getting government job had been
shattered.Ram Prasad's father Budhe Jaisi had died some 17 years ago
His mother is also physically weak
His mother has already knocked the doors of possible helping hands in Kathmandu for her son's treatment
She said she had been left with no money for medicines, room rent, and food, among other daily expenses.She added that she had already sold
all her property for her son's treatment
She wants to donate her kidney, "but could not manage money for the transplant surgery," she said.A version of this article appears in the
print on February 26, 2023, of The Himalayan Times.
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