SAD! Young Lady Dies After Donating Kidney To Ailing Uncle

Young Lady Dies After Donating Kidney To Ailing Uncle
Rehema Kanini donated her kidney to an uncle

who urgently needed one, only to develop
complications that led to her demise.
Rehema died on August 7th in an Indian
hospital after donating a kidney to her ailing
uncle, who survived the operation. Her bother
Fadhili maina said when the doctors at Apollo
Hospital in New Delhi did a postmortem on
Kanini, they found a blood clot that had blocked
her main artery to the kidney and suffocated
other main organs such as the brain, heart and
lungs.
Maina said after the operation, which gave her
uncle lifeline, Kanini was transferred from the
theater to the recovery room and then the
Intensive Care Unit for a closer observation.
“She was overwhelmingly happy that she was
able to save her uncle’s life. However, after
three days, she complained of chest pains and
dizziness. Doctors were called for check up,”
Maina said.” After a few hours, her situation
worsened. The doctors tried to resuscitate her,
but they failed. “Her death raptured our
hearts,” Maina said. In mid last year, the uncle
was diagnosed with kidney malfunction, a
condition which required an urgent transplant.
Family members made a frantic search for a
suitable donor to safe his life.
But a compassionate Kanini, a graduate of
Daystar University, expressed her willingness to
donate her kidney. Kanini’s father, Jason Kamau
had succumbed to a heart failure a year earlier.
“My dad’s loss of life, motivated me to donate
life,” Kanini said on her Facebook page.
Between May and June this year, many
compatibility tests were done on Kanini and her
uncle and they were found matching. “When she
found out they were a match, she shed tears of
joy. She was happy that she could save our
uncle after our father succumbed to organ
failure,” Maina said. In late July 13, Kanini, her
ailing uncle and a cousin flew to Indian, where
they spent about two weeks before the
scheduled operation.
“If only we treated others like we would want to
be treated, the world would be a happier
place,” she posted on her Facebook on July 26.
At the hospital, and with doctors giving her a
clean bill of health and compatibility assurance,
Kanini was wheeled to the operating room for
the operation on August 3. The procedure
medically known as laparoscopic surgery went
successful, according to the doctors, Maina said.
Kanini will be laid to rest today at in their home
in Ihiga village, Muran’ga county.
Her uncles is still recuperating in the India
hospital and is expected back soon. Statistically,
kidney donor surgery is considered to be very
safe.