Sandaru's moms birthday fundraiser for poor kidney patient

Sandaru was really passionate about getting all of her friends and family together to raise funds for the cause of medical assistance. She was very taken with the emotional trauma that a patient will go through during these long-term illnesses and worry about finances to meet their basic day-to-day needs is even sadder. And she wanted to help by picking a cause closer to her heart for her mom's birthday. Thank you!

We identified a patient from Batticaloa by the name of Mrs. Saroja Devi (Age - 45 years). She is currently suffering from End-stage renal disease on chronic dialysis (for 1.5 years and both kidneys are failing)

Family situation - Single mother of two daughters (14 and 17). There is no income for the family. People in the village help and the younger daughter stay with the grandmother. The elder child had stopped education due to her illness. The other goes to school this year with the help of the hospital staff to buy books. They barely have money to get to the hospital or provide for food as per the hospital staff and the doctors. We validated all details with our volunteers and it is true and they were desperately seeking help.

As per the consultant, we could help them by purchasing Whey protein for the patient during dialysis. Whey protein isolate helps maintain the high protein intake that is needed for dialysis. The prescribed amount is 40g per day. (1kg costs about Rs. 12,000). Usually, doctors do not recommend it to poor patients because they are not able to afford it but she needs it due to her chronic dialysis to survive and gain energy to go through the treatment.

And the other aspect is cover for the transportation costs. Saroja travels from a village about 1 hour south of the hospital. Since there are no buses to bring her back and forth, each visit costs 2000 rupees and they have to visit the hospital for dialysis twice a week.

Since we transferred the funds, the patient has not been able to leave the hospital due to the allergies that she has developed. We have been keeping close contact with the hospital staff and the volunteer has been checking. Yesterday after another visit to Kandy hospital for a minor surgery she has been discharged for the weekend and to be back at the hospital on Monday. During her stay in the hospital, she gets the required medication and supplements and therefore they will purchase the medication once back at home.

We will watch out for the final bills for the prescription medicine within the month, however, these are medical reasons and we cannot hasten things. They definitely do not enjoy what fate has in store so we are being very patient and handling the situation delicately.

Thank you to everyone who got together for this cause and especially Sandaru N. Weerasinghe for being on top of this and making sure that this poor family has some help for the next 3 months for medical expenses, transportation, and food. Thank you to the doctors and consultant of the unit for all the coordination humbly stating it's their job, but we all know you go that extra mile for a patient. Stay blessed.

Anyone who wants to further help and donate directly

Bank account

Title of account - Miss Sulaxshanah

BOC bank - Kaluvanchikudi branch

Acc no. 85929815