A tailoring apprentice, Mercy Mensah is at risk of following up with her deceased parents as she loses both of her kidneys.
Until she finally undergoes a transplant, she will continue to pay One Thousand and Forty Ghana cedis every week for dialysis treatment.
The orphan lived in Takoradi but has moved to live with his uncle in Accra to get support.
The young lady’s uncle is also struggling and cannot afford the cost of the dialysis treatment.
“I have to undergo dialysis treatment two times a week. A session of the treatment cost Ghc 520. I miss a lot of the treatment appointments because I cannot afford to pay,” she said.
Mensah said doctors have recommended a transplant as the only way to save her life.
“Doctors say the transplant would cost Ghc 50, 000 but there is no hope anywhere for me,” she told crimecheckghana.org.
Mensah appealed to the general public to support her to undergo the transplant to save her life.
In the meantime, through Crime Check Foundation (CCF), a UK-based donor, Eugenia Dua supported her with Five Hundred Ghana cedis for her dialysis treatment.
CCF counts on the benevolence of the public to come to the aid of Mensah.
This was part of the Foundation’s Health Check Series under which hundreds of patients have been supported financially to get proper medical attention.
