Masudur Rahman of Munshikhanpur in Monirampur, Jessore, a health provider at a community clinic, is on dialysis twice a week after kidney failure. Doctors have advised a transplant and his mother has agreed to donate. Almost all the tests, including the cross-match, are done, but the whole process is stuck on one test of the donor's suitability.
His younger brother, journalist Nure Alam Siddiqui Jewel, said in a Facebook video on Friday night (23 October) that the test is a 'DTPA renogram with split function and GFR'. He said it has to be done through the relevant service of the National Institute of Kidney Diseases and Urology, but after asking at several public and private hospitals he could not find out where in the country it can be done now, or when.
Jewel said it is not a blood or urine test: the donor must be present, so sending samples abroad is no option either. Before the Puja holidays he asked at Bangladesh Medical University and got no firm answer, and he said an 8- or 9-year-old child waiting for the same test is also stuck.
The family has been through a hard two or three months, with dialysis and continuous medication. If the test could be done, Jewel said, the next stage of the transplant would be much easier.
Thinking of his family and other patients in the same position, he asked the prime minister and the health minister to arrange the test urgently. Not everyone can afford treatment abroad, he said, so the necessary tests and treatment must be available at home.
Photo: A patient on dialysis, Dan / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0); representative image
Source: RTV Online
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