A Boy With Kidney Failure Appeals The President for overseas Treatment.

Falling sick of advanced diabetes, Mohamed Abdi Iman, a 17-year-old boy, has been hospitalized in Hargeisa Main Group Hospital  for the last five years; he struggles with advanced diabetes that finally failed his kidney and forced him to break the silence about his critical condition.

He spoke to Codka Bariga Africa sent an urgent appeal to Somaliland’s president Muse Bihi to save his life since his family had no financial resources to travel overseas for medical treatment, Mr, Iman, who looks ten year-old because of the kidney and the chronic diabetes holds his tears back sitting next to his mother. 

“There is no diabetic ward here, so doctors on duty give me what they give to everyone else despite the severity of my medical condition.” Hamse, a correspondent for CBA says that the Hargeisa Hospital administered by the government has no dialysis for children. In order to remove wastes, the doctors have to puncture on the kidney and the arm and that can cause a major infection. 

His mother sitting next to him can’t talk out of the agony and frets about him everyday to die but he gathered courage and kept speaking. “ Doctors told me to go to Mogadishu or Borama if you can’t afford an abroad trip for medical treatment.” it is a harrowing tragedy of human scale. If anyone can help, if anyone can give his kidney to this brave boy who dared to speak for himself, please do so.

God delivers mercy through the acts of kindness by humans. At the edge of death, he still smiles when his legs swollen, a renal failure if kept as it is without treating, the patient will die within six months.