The Health Ministry says they are currently assessing all the information aligned with the assistance criteria that the Ministry has to follow to ensure transparency in the case of a 9-year-old boy seeking assistance for a kidney transplant.
The Ministry says they met with the family last week.
The father of the child, Daniel Munif has stated that when he had taken his son to India the doctors had informed him that his son’s kidney had started getting bad due to which they had to do an operation to remove the left kidney.
Munif says that all his money had finished after the first surgery.
Munif stated that the doctors in India informed him after a few tests that his kidney was compatible for his son however he did not have US$15,000 to pay for the kidney transplant surgery.
The family is still awaiting a response from the Health Ministry.
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