JACINTHA Obairi, a 35-year-old patient at Simeon Hospital in Lagos is suffering from end-stage kidney disease. She is soliciting for financial help from kind-hearted individuals, organisations and the government for a kidney transplant. The hospital report states: “She requires a kidney replacement therapy to be alive. She is at present undergoing haemodialysis. Haemodialysis is a procedure through which undesirable metabolic waste products (urea and creatinine), water, potassium, etc. are removed from the body to avoid toxic accumulation of these substances that occur in a non-functional kidney. The other kidney replacement therapy option available to her is kidney transplant.” According to the hospital report, “kidney transplant is a better option to haemodialysis as it ensures an improved quality of life, considerable cost saving and reduction in morbidity and mortality associated with chronic kidney disease. Kidney transplant can be done in some Nigerian hospitals like La...
Anatolia Vertadella, a 101-year-old Italian woman, has given birth to a 9-pound baby after a controversial ovary transplant widely criticized by medical professionals because of her advanced age, reports the Rivista Napoli. The illegal and controversial surgical operation was done in a private clinic in Turkey, where European laws on ovary transplants do not apply, admits the centennial mother who does not wish to disclose the name of the clinic where the operation was undertaken. “I am very grateful to all the team of doctors who decided to go on with the operation,” she admitted in tears. “I am so grateful to have given birth to my 17th child. This is a true blessing and a testament to the power of the creator,” she told local reporters. “For so long I have felt useless to God, I could not procreate since I turned 48 years old when I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. For a long time I believed God was punishing me for only bearing 16 children, but in his go...
A grandfather has told of the horrific moment he was attacked by a rat while he was sleeping. Dario DiCarlo, 80, was in bed at his home in Gates head, Tyne and Wear, when he felt something 'moving' across the covers. Moments later, a sharp pain shot through his head and he reached his hand up - only to feel a rat against his skin. A distressed Mr DiCarlo shouted out and threw the rodent from his bed, before it slunk off back into the shadows, the Chronicle reports. The former docker said that he has been having problems with rats for 'weeks and weeks' and even caught two in his own traps before contacting pest control. He said he has now been forced to flee his home and sleep in his greenhouse. Mr DiCarlo, who moved to the North East from Italy when he was 14, said: “I felt something moving when I was asleep in my bedroom and then I had a pain on the side of my head. “When...
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