Source : Mr. Bijo, Medico Social worker, St. Johns Hospital - TMAD Bangalore

Date : 09 - 07 - 2008

Galden Gurung is 16yrs old, suffering with End Stage Renal Disease. He has been diagnosed with the Disease at the age of 10yrs. He is on treatment since then. The child came to St. John hospital for evaluation in the month of June 2007; he was put on hemodialysis in June 2007 since then he is on hemodialysis.

The family is running a small restaurant and their monthly income is Rs.3000/- . There are no other sources of income. The family spent approximately Rs. 3 lakhs so far for hemodialysis and medications (one year).The family needs to mobilize an additional amount of Rs.3 lakhs in order to proceed with kidney transplantation operation.

For more details see the letter from Bijo. Letter from Bijo

TMAD Acts

We took the initiative to publish this news in Telugu News Papers (Eenadu, Andhra Jyothi and Sakshi). By seeing this news in Eenadu, Mr. Devendra and his friends gave us Rs. 12k to support this boy.

Mr. Bijo gave the information to Times of India, The Hindu and Bangalore Mirror news papers. He got the support for his operation with the help of public and has Rs.40k excess with him. Galden has to use Cyclosporine medicine life long which costs Rs. 7k per month.

Pavan talked to Novartis ( which sell's Cyclosporine ) Manager to get the concession of Rs.1k per month. Disha and Pavan visited Galden and handed over Cyclosporine medicine for 2 months (costs Rs.12k). Galden's brother and father got jobs as Security guards and earning Rs.8k per month.

Since Mr. Bijo has 40000 more, they don't need any help w.r.t medicine right now. We will try to support for Galden's education from next academic year.

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• Disha