**Update/Follow Up: If anyone has contacts with Baxter (www.baxter.com), either in the US (Deerfield, IL), or in Latin America, could you please comment below, or email me at Laura@Cliniclink.org? We have a lead that Baxter-Guatemala sometimes donates dialysis to needy patients, and we would like to follow up on that.Rina (age 32) is a single mom in great pain for her son. She works as a house cleaner, and washes clothes, making about $51 per month.
Her son, Dilson was born December 28th, 1997. He would have been in 7th grade if he was able to study. He studied hard in 6th grade as an athletic, smart, successful student, playing soccer every recess and every free moment he had. In 2008, his skin started changing colors, becoming paler and paler, and he started vomitting violently, repeatedly. He was taken by a fever in April 2010 and he was diagnosed with chronic kidney failure.
He currently needs dialysis, which would cost $1215 per month in Guatemala City. He will eventually need a transplanted kidney from his mother. We are trying to secure Dilson some donated dialysis. If you have any leads at all, please contact us at Exchange@ClinicLink.org, or comment below.
Try Dr Noel Rodriquez in Mazatenango.