{{A Kenyan Man John Githinji and his family are in distress following his daughter\u2019s detention by an Indian hospital over a Sh1.8 million bill.}}<\/p>\n
The hospital\u2019s management has refused to release his daughter who has undergone a successful kidney transplant, unless the money is paid.<\/p>\n
{{Declared fit}}<\/p>\n
Ms Esther Wacera Githinji, 33, flew to Hinduja Hospital in March last year for a kidney transplant after waiting for 10 years to get a suitable donor.<\/p>\n
This is the second transplant after an earlier one where her 60-year-old mother donated to her her kidney in 2005 failed.<\/p>\n
Thankfully, Ann Githinji, Wacera\u2019s sister volunteered to donate a kidney to her last year. To facilitate a transplant, the family raised Sh1.1 million by selling off some of their assets, including taking a loan and holding a fundraising. The money, he says, was enough for exercise that was to take between three to four weeks.<\/p>\n
However after medical analysis, doctors at the hospital said Wacera\u2019s body was not compatible with a kidney from a family member especially because it had rejected the organ donated by her mother seven years ago after using it for only 11 months.<\/p>\n
Doctors advised them to seek a donor outside their family and were lucky when they found an Indian family that was suffering a similar plight and were willing to do a kidney exchange.<\/p>\n
However, there was an obstacle. \u201cThe Indian Government refused to do the transplant, saying that one of their own could not give a kidney to a Kenyan, leading to a legal tussle,\u201d said Ms Julia Wambui an older sister to the detainee. It took 13 months to clear the legal hurdles for the exchange to take place.<\/p>\n
All this time, Wacera and her mother were living in a rental house in the country and the family was spending between Sh60, 000 to Sh80, 000 per month for their upkeep.
\nAfter the transplant, Wacera developed complications and had to undergo three other costly operations, adding to the already astronomical bill.<\/p>\n
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