Isabella is in the line for her life

Isabella had to live for four years in the Okhmatdyt hospital because she needed to constantly undergo hemodialysis. All this time the girl was bravely waiting for a donor kidney. That was the chance for her to leave the hospital and return home to her family.

Disease and hemodialysis destroyed her bones and hormonal system. Loneliness and longing for her mother forced her to cry every night. And in the mornings she had to go again and again to the painful procedure, then she took the lessons (a teacher was coming to the hospital), then - the manipulations and analysis in order to get into the queue waiting for a donor organ.

None of the family could not become a donor for her. That’s why the only hope was for cadaveric organ transplantation, which is made only abroad. The cost of such transplantation is $60,000.

Last year with UBB we collected to partially cover the cost of the operation – USD 10,000. The rest by that time was already paid for by local foundations. Besides, we had an opportunity to relocate some charity funds donated for other child and to pay the bill for the operation. On January 06, 2016 Izabella was summoned to Minsk and had the surgery. She received a new kidney.

This is a great victory, but only part of the way to a normal life and return to home. Post-transplantation period is long and expensive. The girl should take immunosuppressants for the rest of her life and to constantly take control complex tests in Kiev in order not to prevent kidney transplant rejection. We plan to use the funds collected here to pay for these medicines and tests for the girls.

That will cost UHA 81000.

 

Name: Isabella O. Kochetkova, born 04.02.2003

Location: Kherson region, Stokopany village

Diagnosis: chronic renal insufficiency II-III, hypertension syndrome, renal dysplasia, chronic pharyngitis granulosa