Appeal for assistance
The National, Thursday July 17th, 2014
By LEAH OMAE
Dialysis sessions provided at a high cost in a private hospital are not meeting the expectations of a patient with kidney failure, a patient says.
The process through a dialysis machine separates waste products from the blood in people with damaged kidneys or kidney failures.
Raphael Korldop was referred from the Mt Hagen Hospital, in Western Highlands, to the Port Moresby General Hospital last Thursday to undergo the treatment.
On Saturday he visited one of the private hospitals in the city to use the dialysis machine for sessions one and two and that cost him K2500.
Korldop said he did not attend for third and fourth sessions because he could not afford the cost.
Korldop is the Dei district’s assistant administrator in Western Highlands.
He is a former primary school teacher who taught in most primary schools in the province.
“I have worked for the Education Department for 26 years,” he said.
“I was diagnosed with kidney failure in 2011. I really wanted to get good and proper treatment.
“I’m thinking of travelling to the Philippines to have my kidney replaced but it depends on money (and perhaps a donor),” Korldop said.
He is appealing to the public for assistance to try to get him to the Philippines to have the kidney replaced.
Contributions can be made his account number 1000789206, Raphael W Korldop, BSP savings account, Mt Hagen.