Couple of requests and some updates from XSA - Thu May 7, 2009

Hi all,

This week, we were informed of two cases where XMEC-ians might be
able to help.

First is regarding K. A. Kishore, (referred to us by Arun K V, CS
01-05). Kishore (22 years old) is suffering from Glomerulonephritis
and his kidneys are failing. His elder brother Kailesh, is ready to
donate one of his. The initial tests have been done and it is a match.
The diagnosis report after a renal biopsy is uploaded @
xmec/Files->Social Assist->Kishore.jpg. He is currently being treated
at Amrita hospital and the doctors have agreed to waive off the
operation expense. However he has to make an advance payment of 1
years medicine supply and bear the equipment charges. The remaining
total expense is expected to be around 1.5 Lakhs. The date of the
surgery has been already rescheduled thrice since Kishore's family
couldn't arrange for the money. His health is deteriorating fast and
the transplant has to be done ASAP.

Second case was referred to us by Roby '03 - '07, regarding G.
Ramalaxmi, age:24. She is suffering from the fatal disease, “APLASTIC
ANEMIA”. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aplastic_anemia She has been
suffering from the disease for the past 2.5 years and since then she
has been fighting for life day in and out. Being a female, there is
hardly any support from her family as the operation cost is very high.
She is admitted in CMC, Vellore as some fungi had formed in her lungs
and she has to get operated for BMT (Bone Marrow Transplantation)
within 2-3 days. An amount of Rs 3000/- has to be spent per day until
she gets operated for BMT. Total operation cost will be around 16lakhs
and more (12 lakhs for operation and remaining for hospital expenses).

Those of you who would like to help may transfer the amount to the
account mentioned below. Once you have made the transfer please inform
me or any of the XSA members.

Name : Ashley Jose
Account Number: 004001502155
Bank: ICICI
Branch: Madhapur
Nearest city: Hyderabad
MICR number : 500229003

Meanwhile, here is an update on the previous cases we have handled
earlier this year.

* Sujesh, who sustained an injury on his spinal chord is back from
China after the treatment. Currently he is undergoing physiotherapy.
Slowly he has started to regain control of limbs, but a complete
recovery will take months. XMEC-ians had donated a total of 30k which
we had handed over to his father before they left for China.

* Rayona, the 2 year old child, who suffers from bilateral profound
hearing loss, will be undergoing the surgery for cochlear Implantation
on the 20th of this month. Many XMEC-ians contributed for this and we
have collected more than 1.5 Lakhs for the same. Right now we are
trying to decide on the best means to transfer the amount to the
hospital authorities.

Regards,
Sanish (CS '09) for XSA