Donors are thanked by kidney patient
Dying kidney patient Sun Wenjuan's spirits were lifted yesterday after she was told that donations were streaming in to help her.
The South China Morning Post has launched a campaign to raise 200,000 yuan (HK$188,000) for Wenjuan, 20, from Hebei province, who needs the money for a kidney transplant and post-operative care. About $7,500 was raised on the first day of the campaign.
Unless sufficient funds are raised to pay for further dialysis treatment, she will be lucky if she lives to September. She has already had two transplants but both have failed.
After today, her insurance will cover the cost of just one more dialysis treatment, which she undergoes at Beijing's Chaoyang Hospital.
Wenjuan must have three dialysis treatments a week, and each one lasts four hours. Her family cannot afford the monthly 6,000 yuan fee for the life-saving treatments.
'At first, I did not know if there would be money for me to have a dialysis treatment this Friday. I was thinking if we could not afford it, I would just stop the treatments, but now I will hold on and live as long as I can,' she said. 'If there is enough money for a transplant, then I will have a transplant. If not, I will keep having dialysis.'
She said that she was depressed yesterday morning, but that her spirits were lifted by news of the donations.
'I am so happy now that you have told me that so many care about me. I will have a good appetite tonight,' she said.
'I have no complaints. I am already the lucky one among the unlucky people. Not many children from rural migrant families can have dialysis.
'I am so happy that I met so many kind people since I came to Beijing, and so many people have shown their love to me.'
Her uncle, Sun Zhengliang, said he would visit hospitals to make preparations for a transplant.
'Whether the money is enough or not, I will make preparations and do my best,' he said. 'We cannot watch the child die just like that.'
