A distraught mother
has been forced forced to make a heart-breaking decision over which of
her desperately ill sons should receive her kidney.
Lian Ronghua was pictured in tears as she prepared to go into the
operating theatre, after choosing the younger son, Li Haisong, 24.
Aspiring doctor Li Haiqing, 26, sacrificed his own health by urging his
mother to save his sibling according to a report in The People’s Daily
Online, saying: ‘We will save little brother first.’
The
transplant operation cost the family several thousand yuan, and the
men’s father Li Xiukai said they might not be able to afford a second
operation if a suitable donor is found for Haiqing.
Both men, from Quanzhou City in the Fujian Province of China, suffered
from uremia – a condition that gradually leads to kidney failure – with a
kidney transplant offering the only hope of a cure.
The entire family moved to Xiamen last year so that Haiqing could
receive dialysis treatment on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, while
Haisong underwent the same procedure on Tuesdays, Thursdays and
Saturdays.
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