After over an year, smile is beginning to return on the faces of Paresh Barot and Komal Barot, parents of Harshal Barot.
After over an year, smile is beginning to return on the faces of Paresh Barot and Komal Barot, parents of Harshal Barot, an eight-year-old girl who was fighting for life following kidney failure after suffering from viral fever in January 2008. Their daughter underwent a cadaver kidney transplantation at the Sterling hospital recently, giving her a fresh leash of life.
Harshal’s family was finding it hard to spend around Rs15,000 a month on dialysis to keep their daughter alive. Over the past year, Paresh had to sell his office for Harshal’s treatment. According to the family, they had to spend a fortune on her treatment, even by borrowings from friends.
But dialysis was not a permanent solution. This way, the girl could have lived for about five to seven years at most. In this gloomy scenario, a Jay Shah came as a saviour.
Jay Shah’s father, Pankaj Shah, was declared brain-dead at the Sterling hospital on May 4. Much as it was shocking for him, Jay decided to donate his father’s kidneys and eyes to the needy.
After necessary tests, it was decidced to donate one kidney each to Harshal and one Seema Patel, a 36-year-old woman from Charoter, Anand.
A team of six surgeons operated the two patients to transplant kidneys. According to doctors, both have passed the first stage of post-operative recovery and are doing well now.
Commenting on the issue, nephrologist Dr Prakash Darji said, “The monthly cost of medicines and dialysis of both patients was Rs15,000 to Rs20,000 each. Moreover, dialysis was not a permanent solution as most of such patients survive for five to seven years.”
However, cadaver kidney transplantation will allow the two patients to live for another 20-30 years. In case of any problem later, they might have to go for another kidney transplantation or undergo dialysis, Darji added.
Paresh and Komal Barot have spring in their steps now. “We had been fighting the battle for our daughter every day. Because of kidney failure she had to undergo the pain of dialysis twice or thrice in a week.”
They regretted that many people don’t believe in cadaver kidney transplantation due to religious and other taboos. They felt that there was need for greater awareness in this regard.
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