Nalini Mohammed nee Shivram, currently suffering from end stage renal disease, is now bedridden and is still pleading for help.
Shivram and her husband of fourteen years, Rasheed Mohammed, in their desperation to get help stood in front of the National Cultural Centre last Thursday with placards which read “Save my wife” and “Jagdeo/CARICOM I will die within days, Can’t afford dialysis”.
The display did not have the desired effect, Shivram told Stabroek News via telephone yesterday. A former dialysis patient, the woman explained, paid for a dialysis treatment last Saturday but that is the only help she has since received.
“I couldn’t afford to pay for any treatment last week…and I sit in my house crying wondering what going to happen to me,” Shivram recalled, “then I get a call from the dialysis centre telling me that somebody wanted to pay for a treatment…I told them that I wanted to do it immediately.”
The distressed couple told Stabroek News last Friday that they were prompted by a businessman to stand peacefully with their placards at the opening ceremony for the 30th Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government. This, they’d explained, seemed like a good way to get the attention of the government or anyone who could help.
Shivram, according to an invoice from the 5G Dialysis Centre, must receive dialysis three times a week. Each treatment, the invoice said, costs just over $36, 000. The woman had been undergoing dialysis for the last two years and the Ministry of Health had paid for 20 treatments. Last week Shivram received one treatment and has gotten none so far this week.
“I hope that people will help me because my life depends on it,” Shivram said. “Just a few more treatments I hope and then hopefully I will get a donor so I can get my transplant.”
Shivram told Stabroek News yesterday that she does not expect dialysis to be provided free of cost. However, the woman stated that it would be of great help if the cost could be subsidized.
“I read in the news today [yesterday’s edition of the Kaieteur News] that the Ministry of Health cannot afford to provide continuous help to people like me and that they cannot give us dialysis free,” Shivram said. “I don’t want them to provide the service free but I would be grateful is I could get two treatments for one…they just need to make the treatment affordable that is all.”
This is indeed sad and the dialysis treatment is not a cure it will only keep her alive for as long as she can afford the treatment.
If she has a relative here in the USA I can point them to alternative natural kidney disease treatment by Dr. Richard Schultze. I even have his book right here on my desk. Healing kidney disease naturally.
My email is joe.coxall@verizon.net or google Dr.Schultze on the internet.
Joe.
Hope this situation ends in happy closure, with assistance through Ministry of Health when approached through proper channels and procedure..
“Pompted by a businessman” ? Well, well, well…And have they no same in embarassing the good name of their country in front of the regional and world press (fortunately, it ignored this non story).
This so called story was pusblished four days ago in SN. Folks, management is giving new meaning to the description “follow up story “…
Reddy, if it were my wife, I will have embarrassed the whole world even to save her life.
why cant we fly out this woman like how we fly out corbin and ramsammy?
Hold on…she does not expect it for free? Why the hell not? Either we have a public health service in this country or we don’t. What is wrong with this government that its people have become such a burden on them?
20 treatments would cost the same as one plane flight for Beg-deo.
The lights for Carifesta that never arrived would pay for her treatment for years. I am sickened by all of this.
I LIVE IN AN NEXT MAN CONTRY THAT DONT GET THE RESOURCE THAT WE HAVE IN GUYANA AN I AM SURE IF SHE WAS FROM THIS CONTRY HER GOVERNMENT WILL HAVE DONE LOOK AFTER HER AT THEIR EXPENSE,WHY OUR GOVERNMENT CAN TAKE SOME CASH FROM THE LATTO FUNDS AN FOOT THE BILL AN SAVE AN GUYANESE FROM ALL THE PAIN AN DEAD,SHAME ON THE PPP ,GOVERNMENT THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH,O FORGET OUR CONTRY MONEY IS TO BUY BRAND NEW BMW,CAR FOR THE BIG BOYS TO DRIVE AROUND,AN TO GIVE BUDDY S,TO BUILD IS HOTEL,FELLOW GUYANSE DONT MAKE THE MISTAKE LETS GET AN GOVERNMENT THAT CARE FOR THE PPL,VOTE THESE PPL OUT.
I would like to provide some type of assistance –
moderator: if possible please provide contact information for her relatives.
I just don’t think this is the way to go…this government is relying on you to do THEIR job. I know you care but how will things change?
Hello, whom ever you are that is a blessing you are willing to help her out, God will forever bless you. They are some still some good people left out there and you are one. Good luck in your support for someone else.
they will discriminate against this woman for pickiting at the caricom headquarters
Where are you, Guyanese? Every day you demand that Bajans and other foreigners help you, yet you won’t help your own people. This Guyanese woman has been begging for days for people to help her pay for dialysis treatments so she can live. What response has she gotten? Only one person has offered to help, out of the hundreds of thousands of Guyanese who live in Guyana and abroad. A Guyanese blogger on this site said he and some “chaps” were thinking about taking out full page ads in various American and British newspapers advising potential tourists not to visit Barbados. Full page ads are expensive. He is willing to spend a lot of money to try to harm Barbados’ tourism industry, but won’t send a cent to help his countrywoman. What does this say about you Guyanese? I think it says you are hypocrites. If you are not willing to help your own, don’t demand that we Bajans and others help you. Charity begins at home.
why so angry at us guyanese. please do not generalise or criticize our ppl. not every blows a trumpet bfr they lend a helping hand. you do not know if the indiviual was helped by us guyanese bfr the article was printed or if she will be helped after. pls remeber tht this is not her first treatment. think bfr you speak bajan gal.
Please also send me contact information so I can provide assistance to this woman as well.
omg i pray that this woman get the treatment ,she needs rite now until she gets the transplant or complete healing from the deving God above
SORRY OF THE SITUATION . UNDERSTAND SHE WANT A DONOR. IF WAS MY WIFE I WOULD HAVE GIVEN HER ONE OF MY KIDNEY…Y DOES HER HUSBAND WHO HAVE 2 GOOD KIDNEY CANNOT DONATE ONE TO HIS WIFE??? I KNEW OF SITUATION HERE IN BARBADOS , THAT A FATHER GAVE ONE OF HIS KIDNEY TO HIS SON AND BOTH OF THEM ARE HAPPY NOW .THIS HAPPENS JUST MONTH A AGO.
WISH U GOOD LUCK
first , to donate any organ u have to be compatible. maybe the husband is not a match. I pray she gets a kidney soon, this treatment is to keep her alive for so long…it’s not a cure. I think the government should provide assistant to people who can’t afford these treatment.
it is quite a needless assumption to make when all facts are not known. assumption – husband has 2 good kidneys
God bless all those who r helping this woman, i hope she gets all the help she needed.God Bless.