Life-Saving Liver Transplant for Shabahat | LaunchGood

zanabism:

It is with such a heavy heart that I write this. My uncle, Shabahat Abbas Taqvi, beloved father of two and husband, discovered he was long overdue for a liver transplant on June 1st, 2017. 

 As a patient in Pakistan, he had been fighting various illnesses for years until the discovery was made that he had multi-centric hepatoma in his post-cirrhotic liver. Discovering this only a few days in Ramzan has been devastating for everyone. 

 Pakistani transplant patients have very little options. The most feasible option is to travel to India where organ transplants are performed in Indian facilities. The cheapest cost for this is immense; at the very least, treatment and food and accommodations, and living expenses + POST recovery cost would cost 200 000 dollars, including travel expenses and visa application costs. 

 My uncle has been unable to work for years and is entirely dependent on the part time salary of his son, who is also a student. As his son is the only match for his transplant, he will be traveling with them to donate a portion of his liver. My uncle’s family has battled poverty for years and is unable to even fulfill the monthly budget they need for basic amenities, let alone this new immense cost.  

I cannot believe crowdfunding is the only way to save the lives of people who can’t afford treatment–people shouldn’t die because they don’t have hundreds of thousands to spare. 

I am asking anyone who reads this to donate just ONE DOLLAR–no more than that. I have seen how impactful dollar donations can be–they build up rapidly.

 If you can’t donate, please consider reblogging this and posting this link to twitter/FB/any other social media that’s out there. I want my uncle to live long enough to see his kids prosper, I want him to survive this. Thank you so much for reading.

For a cost breakdown please visit the fundraiser link–we will post invoices as soon as we have them. 

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