A thirty-four year old ICT teacher of the Awisen/Kayera MA JHS in the Offinso district, Mr Martin Opoku Asamoah, is appealing to the public and philanthropists to help him raise $30,000 to undergo a renal transplant in India.
Mr Asamoah was diagnosed of End Stage Kidney Disease and is currently undergoing haemodialysis at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi.
He has since June this year been undergoing haemodialysis twice weekly.
A letter to seek financial support issued to him by Dr Ellit Korankeng Tannor, Senior Specialist Physician Nephrologist and Prof Bernard Nkum, Head of Department of Medicine, said the patient’s condition has been complicated by severe anaemia, severe hypertension and pulmonary oedema.
According to the letter, Asamoah, who was initially put haemodialysis was later put on femoral catheter “which was later replaced with a tunnel internal jugular venous catheter.”
The letter said the patient was currently “on admission for Klebsiella pneumonia and on IV ciprofloxacin according to sensitivity pattern.”
According to Doctors, the patient has been advised to consider renal transplantation “as a means to improve his survival and quality of life and is seeking support to do so.”
The Offinso Municipal Directorate of Education for its part, is also seeking support for their ailing staff to help him undergo the transplant.
A letter dated on October 15, 2019 signed by the District Director of Education, Ms Joyce Aduama addressed to all basic schools in the municipality, appealed for support for Mr Asamoah.
According to her, “the situation is dire and requires our immediate and collective financial support to enable him undergo renal transplant as a means to improve his survival and quality of life.
“I wish therefore to passionately appeal to all teachers to rise up in solidarity and contribute cheerfully toward a worthy cause,” she appealed.
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