How Crowdfunding is Helping to Pay for Liver Transplants

Posted On: 2023-02-28 13:29:17

The liver is the body's second-largest solid organ. It performs multiple functions and is vital for digestion. It liver processes and balance nutrients from the blood that comes from the intestines and stomach. It also metabolises drugs into forms that are easy to use for different parts of the body. Hepatitis, Cirrhosis, Liver Cancer, Hemochromatosis, Wilson's disease, and a few others are all liver diseases proven to be fatal. 

 

There is a multitude of reasons that cause these diseases. A viral infection, autoimmune problems, consumption of too much alcohol and fatty foods, and consuming too many toxins, and drugs are various causes of liver diseases that are fatal.

 

While there are treatment options available like stopping alcohol for life, maintaining a specified diet, not consuming fats, and a certain surgery or medications; there are patients diagnosed with severe liver disease that it becomes fatal. Apart from a liver transplant, there is no other option left for the patient. But liver transplant comes with a price tag of lakhs in India. It is highly expensive and most people cannot afford it, especially the underprivileged.

 

 

A liver transplant is a treatment which has to be resolved quickly, especially in infants and young children who have a lower immune system than adults. According to the Directorate General of Health Services, 200,000 of the 2,60,000 deaths caused by liver diseases may be directly related to liver failure, and an unbelievable 10-15% of these lives may have been saved if a liver transplant had been provided in a reasonable timeframe.

 

But how to afford a liver transplant? At such times, what people do is, mortgage or sell their ancestral property or belongings and are found to be in debt later. Now that the world is expanding, you can find ways to fund even prolonged expensive medical treatments. 

 

Crowdfunding is a way that can assure paying for expensive long-Medical crowdfunding is a social cause that has received considerable donations from kindhearted people all around the world. People in India who are in desperate need of financial support for a liver transplant can do so by joining crowdfunding platforms to raise funds necessary for the patient's care. medical treatments that also include transplants without you selling your valuables. 

 

Filaantro is a crowdfunding platform that raises funds for every genuine cause. Crowdsourcing or online fundraising for medical care is the number one reason for crowdfunding in India. Just like thousands of people around the world waiting for liver transplants, our platform aims to as many as we can. 

 

 

 

Aditya Needs A Liver Transplant To Survive. Help Him!

“My son is suffering from a disease I cannot even pronounce. He has blisters on his joints they say. His liver is severely affected. Doctors say he needs a treatment that would cost  Rs. 16,50,000/-. I am a daily wage labourer and earn only Rs. 450/- per day. My wife used to work on a farm but had to leave that work to look after Aditya. The amount required is too much to arrange for us, and I have spent every penny I had with me on my son's treatment so far. I do not think I will be able to gather this sum of money in my whole life! I need your help to save my son. I want to see him happy and healthy. Please help me!”

-Mr. Dadasaheb Raut

Aditya deserves a second chance at life, please help him. 

Visit https://filaantro.org/fundraiser/view/help-aditya-raut to help Aditya

 

 

 

An Urgent Liver Transplant Will Set Little Gourav Free From All His Sufferings; Help Him!

 

Gourav, a 10-year-old boy from Madhya Pradesh is suffering from Biliary Atresia, a liver disease. He started living a difficult life full of hospital visits and medicines after he was diagnosed with it when he was just two months old. He is currently taking treatment at Rela Hospital and needs a liver transplant worth Rs. 22,50,000/- (Rupees Twenty Two Lakhs Fifty Thousand only). His father is the sole breadwinner in the family and earns a minimal income that barely supports their monthly expenses. Please help Gourav so he is free from this dreadful cage. 

Visit https://filaantro.org/fundraiser/view/help-gourav-rao to help Gourav 

 

Author: Anjali Patel