00:00In the midst of the widespread sale of kidney or kidney stone,
00:03it was once again mentioned how difficult it is to get a transplant.
00:07More than a million pesos is required for the operation.
00:10The kidney stone is free, but it needs to be selected.
00:13Except if you already have a donor, you should not pay for it.
00:17Maki Pulido got it right.
00:22For the long life of 23-year-old Joy's child,
00:26she needs a kidney transplant.
00:28She's already in stage 5.
00:30Her kidney is no longer functioning.
00:34It's been a long time since she had a kidney stone.
00:36Last year, Joy asked the National Kidney and Transplant Institute, or NKTI,
00:41how to get a kidney transplant for her child.
00:44But before the process can start, she needs 600,000 pesos as show money.
00:49She doesn't have enough money to buy food,
00:52so until now, the child is only on dialysis.
00:55I'm looking for a job at night.
00:58If there's no one in the bar, I don't have any income.
01:01Sometimes, I don't have enough food.
01:04We're still building the house.
01:05Now, I don't have enough electricity.
01:07I can't pay for the electricity bill of my child.
01:09I can't pay for the electricity bill.
01:11I stopped paying for the electricity bill.
01:14Because it's running out.
01:16The NKTI admitted that she really needs money for the transplant.
01:21The NKTI's kidney transplant costs 1.2 million pesos.
01:25But PhilHealth can pay for half of it.
01:28The medicine costs 30,000 pesos per month.
01:32The NKTI also appealed to PhilHealth to help with the anti-rejection medicine.
01:38Kidney transplant is not for everybody
01:40because you have to have medicines.
01:42You have to maintain those medicines for life
01:47so you won't reject the kidney.
01:49For show money, it's in their bank account.
01:53I hope they can subsidize their medicines
01:56at least for the first six months post-transplant.
02:00Even if the person who needs a kidney transplant has money to pay
02:04there's no queue if you have a donor.
02:05If there's no living donor, the wait might be long.
02:09One of their patients has been waiting for six years
02:12to have a kidney donor.
02:14There's a hundred on the waiting list
02:15of Human Organ Preservation Effort or HOPE.
02:18That's why it's hoped that more people will be listed as organ donors.
02:22It's also a solution to reduce the risk of kidney failure.
02:26If you carry the organ donor card,
02:28you have to sign it.
02:29It's also on the back of your driver's license.
02:32In case anything happens to you
02:36and you're brain dead
02:40but your organs are still functioning,
02:42we'll donate all of our organs
02:45for those with kidney failure, lung failure, heart failure,
02:50liver failure.
02:51They can have a new life.
02:53In the middle of the news,
02:54the kidney donor, NKTI,
02:56said their process is strict
02:58and they hope it's the same in other hospitals.
03:01For non-related donors,
03:02the donor and recipient must have an emotional or social relationship.
03:08They undergo psychiatric evaluation.
03:12We have a Hospital Transplant Ethics Committee.
03:15We also have our head of our social worker
03:19as part of that committee.
03:21Then they will interview the donor.
03:25They will talk to the barangay captain.
03:27For GMA Integrated News, Macky Pulido, for 24 Hours.
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