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PERSONAL APPEAL TO SAVE TWO HUMAN LIVESSamudra Hemantha Hettiarchi, 29 year old ( NIC No. 785540050V) whose blood group is B+ led an active life prior to admission to the University. On the 1st of March 2000, she suffered severely from high blood pressure at the University Campus premises and was referred to Dr Chula Herath at the Sri Jayawardenapura Hospital . Consultation revealed that both her kidneys had been affected and she needed a kidney transplant very badly. On the 14th of January 2002 she became seriously ill again which made her dependant on a dialysis machine . Consequently she had more than 348 dialyses treatment sessions at a cost of around Rs.50,000 per month for each treatment, hormone injections and medicine . Her parents too were in a bad shape as regards to their health which became an added burden on their overall financial commitments to cope with their increasing health bills. At a certain stage she became desperate to find a donor and in 2005 she found one. Twenty volunteers came forward to donate their kidneys, yet it cost her additional Rs.15,000 per donor for their compatibility tests prior to a transplant. Finally On 1st of March 2005 her transplant was carried out at the Sri Jayawardhanapura hospital. It was a relief that after a lengthy period of being seriously ill that she was recovering gradually. Her parents had to spend more than 4.5 million rupees for her transplant, health checks, dialysis machines etc., for which they had to mortgage their only house and land they owned. Providence has its own agenda. A few months after the transplant, she suffered five times from CMV(virus inflection) and it costs more than Rs. 300 000 for injections and other medication. The latest advice from doctors is that she will have to be on medication throughout her entire life along with intermittent medical check- ups to maintain her health in good shape. This is going to cost her Rs.25,000 per month and her parents spend their entire pension on her medicine. Rubbing salt to injury, as it were, her father suffered a heart attack on 2 March 2007 and is under treatment from the Colombo General Hospital. Heart specialists have recommended that her father needs an "Engioplastee operation immediately within a month or so and the estimated cost for such an operation is Rs.3,50,000. Her father, D.D. Hettiarachchi who is 69 years old had been the main
bread-winner of the family. He was a graduate from the Colombo University
and had served as a government servant for 25 years attached to the
Department of Survey and Ministry of Forestry, Irrigation and Mahaveli
Development She is personally making an appeal to those kind and compassionate
human beings to help her and father's treatments. Those whose heart
touch this sad human story and are willing to save two lives could either
contact her parents or send in a financial contribution to her Sampath
Bank details of are as follows :
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