Requesting Financial Help for Kidney Transplant

[loom91]

my freind mr.ranjit debsharma is a diabetic patient.this cost him both the kidneys.his financial condition does not permit him to have a kidney transplantation operation,which is the only thing the doctors recomend.he lives here in kolkata,india.here the cost of the operation & post operative care and medication for 6 months adds upto .6million INR.in dollar which is around 25K.we are in a helpless and hopeless condition.his job is a low-salaried one.can anyone come up with any suggestion,how to get help?pl contact: basu_joybasu@yahoo.com or joybasu@hotmail.com. any NGO or any other sort of organisation, may do something for him here(kolkata,india)?

[Beth Witten MSW ACSW]

Life Options provides education about kidney disease for patients and professionals. Unfortunately, Life Options does not have the funds to help people pay for treating kidney disease. I do not know what organizations in India provide financial help to patients. In the United States, there are social workers that work with hospitals and dialysis clinics to help people with kidney disease and kidney failure find financial help. Perhaps your friend's kidney doctor can direct him to a social worker or other individual who knows sources of help in your community, region, or country. In the United States, affiliates (local offices) of the National Kidney Foundation provide limited financial help to people with kidney disease. I understand that there may be a National Kidney Foundation of India but I cannot find a website for it. You might also find information or an organization that can help you on this India Yahoo page that has several links:
http://in.dir.yahoo.com/Health/Disea...dney_Diseases/. Good luck!

IT is to inform that my daughter named Shiveta aged 25 yrs is suffering from Kidney failure (CKD-v) and presently she is undergoing teatment at Pushpawati Singhania Research Institute , Shiekh Sarai Phase-2,New Delhi vide hospital No-121513. Dr. Sanjeev Saxena Sr. Consulant Nephrology has advised earliest transplantation of Kidney to be donated by her mother.Now funds are required to takeon the treatment.
Shivata got married in August 2007 and gave birth to a girl child in Jan 2009 .On knowing about the disease from PGI Chandigarh Hospital, the husband deserted her since may 2009 and since than he has not turned up to look after his wife and 16 month daughter child. The whereabouts of her husband are not known since may 2009.
I as a father of Shiveta and grandfather of girl child I can not desert them. I tried my level best to get her treated at P G I ,Chandigarh since Mar.2009 and now atAIMSNew Delhi but due to critcal condition the patient had to admitted in PSRI Hospital for immediate treatment.
In order to save the precious life i would request one and all for monetary help to be creadited to PSRI A/c No 1768201000942.enabling me to proceed further with the treatment.
PLEASE JOIN HANDS WITH ME.

Thanks
Shiban Koul(Shiveta's father)
844-Subashnagar, Jammu ( J & K )
C/O C-13, Nanakpura,Moti Bagh South
(M) 09419166986

[DoriSchatell]

As Beth said above, the Medical Education Institute which runs this site offers information--not money. Perhaps someone who reads this board will want to help. But I suspect that your best bet will be to look at the website that Beth listed. The National Kidney Foundation of India website is listed as this, though I was not able to get to the site: http://www.nkfi.in/. They may have some thoughts for you as well.