BAJURA, FEBRUARY 25
Twenty-two-year-old kidney patient Ram Prasad Jaisi of Budhiganga Municipality, Bajura, has been struggling for life for want of treatment expenses.
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.
