Nigeria: Mother of Five Needs N6 Million for Kidney Transplant

7 January 2016

Mrs Olivia Ify Amakonze, a trader and a mother of five, is gradually losing grip of her life to kidney failure diagnosed on her early this year. She and her husband, Mr. Augustine Amakonze, a dealer on used electronics at Ladipo Market have had to sell off their goods in the course of the treatment and are totally left with nothing now but still, hope for her recovery seems to be elusive.

But all hope is still not lost as Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) and Zenith Hospital, Abuja, have all promised to carry out a kidney transplant on her, but the cost of the procedure is posing a great challenge to the process and her survival.

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