3 Iloilo patients needed for free kidney transplant
The Rotary Club of Iloilo West is looking for three patients who are interested to avail of its kidney transplant project slated on January 17 to 19 next year.
Atty. Raul Anlocoton, president of the Rotary Club of Iloilo West, said a team of surgeons from California, United States will arrive and perform the kidney transplant operation in tandem with the medical team of Dr. Romulo Barrameda at the Iloilo St. Paul’s Hospital.
“Dr. Barrameda is a leading kidney transplant surgeon in Iloilo,” he said. “They will all perform the operations for free.”
The Rotary International will extend a $2,000-assistance for the project under its Matching Grant Program which will be used to defray the expenses during the operations.
The patients, however, have to look for their own donors and shoulder incidental expenses and post-operative medications and maintenance.
They also have to be endorsed by any Rotary Club under District 3850.
The kidney transplant operation is a very expensive procedure which might cost the patient not less than P700,000.
The free kidney transplant operation is an annual project of the civic group for three years now.*PNA
