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عربي

Appeal for Assistance for Three-year old Patient
 14/02/2008

    

Three-year old Maha from Basrah in Iraq suffers from thalassemia major. Since the little girl can remember, she has been in need of regular blood transfusions. She used to climb onto the hospital bed with a smile, and when she saw worry plainly written on her father’s face, she would say: “Papa, don’t worry. I will be all right.”
 
Needless to say that the doctors did not agree with Maha’s view of her health situation. Despite proper conservative treatment, thalassemia major affects various parts of the body and results in deterioration of the patient’s health and early death. Maha’s doctor advised her father to obtain a bone marrow transplant from a healthy sibling for her.
 
Organ transplants cannot be performed in Iraq at present, and this is the case with regard to other exceptionally expensive treatments as well. Patients come to Iran and learn after a series of expensive tests that treatment is possible and the prognosis is promising. However, most of them lose hope again when hearing about treatment cost: 120 Million Rial (ca 6,300 GBP) for a kidney transplant, 300 Million Rial (ca 15,800 GBP) for a bone marrow transplant and similar sums for other exceptional kinds of treatment.
 
Like Maha’s father, these families sell all their possessions and knock every door they know of to come up with the required sum. They come to IRAC’s office in desperation and ask for assistance with a shortfall of between 1,000 and 3,000 GBP.
For more details:
http://www.ladyfatemahtrust.org/inner.php?page=project_details&item_id=403