Mombasa Journalist Appeals For Financial Help To Undergo Crucial Treatment In India

• A Mombasa-based journalist identified as Fatma is hospitalized at the Intensive Care Unit of the Coast General Hospital, and she urgently requires a valve transplant to save her life
• For the last 12 years, she had not been on medication until recently when she began experiencing severe symptoms like stomach pains and fever
• Her health took a severe turn when she complained of stomach pains leading to vomiting blood

A Family in Kiembeni, Bamburi ward in Mombasa county is appealing for help to take their daughter to India for the second time for a valve transplant.

Twenty-six-year-old Fatma Rajab, a radio journalist in Mombasa, is currently hospitalised at the Intensive Care Unit at the Coast General Hospital, in need of urgent medical help to save her life.

According to her family, Rajab underwent her first heart surgery in India when she was a 14-year-old Form Two student.

Fatma Rajab's family speaks

Her Father, Rajab Ali Simenze, told TUKO.co.ke that Fatma had not been on medication for the last 12 years until recently when she started complaining of a stomachache and fever.

"On Tuesday night, my daughter Fatma was complaining of stomach pains that made her vomit blood. We rushed her to a nearby dispensary in Kiembeni," said her father Ali.

Ali explained that the young lady was born with a heart complication, and her problems started while she was in high school.

She is the third born in a family of four siblings.

Her father said her daughter Fatma was admitted to the same hospital at Coast General Hospital a week ago, and the hospital referred her to Karen Hospital, where she underwent heart screening.

The Karen Hospital gave her medicines to last her a week, and she was doing well and improving. Things changed on Tuesday this week after she started vomiting blood and passing black stool.

"We have not slept for the last three days we've been camping here in the hospital, having hopes that all will be well, we are pleading with wisher to help us fund our daughter's medical appeal," he said.

Her aunty Mwanatumu Abdallah said that her niece is in immense pain and needs help, and KSh 1.8 million is needed to transport their daughter to India for the crucial Valve transplant.

Abdallah said that after her niece Fatma came from India one week and started complaining of stomach aches a week later, and was rushed again to the hospital, where they discovered that her ovaries had overturned; hence, another surgery to remove her right ovaries was needed.

"My niece Fatma is currently surviving with one ovary; at first, it was heart complication, then her ovaries, then this again? We really need help," she said.

The family is now complaining that Coast General Hospital has been confusing them since the first time their daughter was admitted to Coast General Hospital, and they referred them to Karen Hospital in Nairobi.

"Now, their daughter needs a valve transplant. How will the hospital be capable of conducting surgery if they fail to conduct a simple screening?" the family complained.

Coast General Hospital doctor speaks

According to the Coast General Hospital, Dr Hassan Ali, a resident medical Doctor at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), said that the patient was brought to the hospital when she was in bad shape, but she is responding well to medication, and they are waiting for her to stabilise.

Ali said Fatma's Valves have worn out and need a replacement. Hence, it can no longer carry its functions well.

"If the family will have hopes in us we can proceed with the surgery. It is something that we can do, but it will be very expensive, "said the doctor.

He further said that they can't conduct surgery when the patient is still in ICU.

The family is now pleading with Kenyan citizens to help then fundraise the medical appeal so that their daughter can be able to enjoy living.

They also went ahead and shared their medical fund appeal, as shown below.

POST BANK: NAME : FATMA RAJAB. PAY BILL NUMBER 200999 ACC NO:0771250013068.

If you want to reach her mum, her direct contact is Samira- 0708626331.