Klang – From the time their youngest daughter was six
months old, B. Ganesan, 33, and M. Sutha, 32, have been desperately fighting to
keep her alive.
Their daughter Uma
Mageswary, four, suffers from cystic fibrosis and will not survive for long if
she does not undergo a lung transplant.
“She was admitted on Feb
4 at the Universiti Malaya Medical Centre for two weeks. The doctors said her
lungs were in bad shape and deteriorating,” said Ganesan.
He added that his
daughter’s condition is so bad that Sutha has to do manual drainage of phlegm
and mucus, from the lungs using tubes, up to four times a day.
“She cries and screams
every time it is done and it is so painful to see our baby like that,” he
added.
Cystic fibrosis is a
degenerative disease which creates continuous lung infections and difficulty in
breathing.
Ganesan said Apollo Hospital in Tamil Nadu was
willing to do a lung transplant for Uma Mageswary.
“I contacted the
hospital and discussed my daughter’s medical issues and they assured me the
transplant can be done.”
However, it would cost
the family RM150,000, which they do not have. They have only managed to raise
RM30,000 so far.
“I am just a van driver
earning about RM1,200 a month and I do odd jobs for an additional few hundred
ringgit,” said Ganesan who has three other children aged 10, seven and six.
Ganesan also takes care
of his aged parents who live with him.
“My wife and I are
really desperate to save our daughter’s life. Please help us,” he said.
NGO Community
Development and Integration Initiative (CDII) director Firoza Burhan said a
lung transplant was the last hope for Uma Mageswary.
“We understand the
parents’ desperation and hope they will be given the necessary help,” said
Firoza, adding that CDII was prepared to coordinate the fund-raising for
Ganesan. – The Star
4-year-old girl in desperate need of lung transplant
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