A man rushed to hospital for a
kidney transplant has spoken of his
dilemma - after he learned the
donor organ could be infected with
HIV.
Tony Gartside had waited four years
for a donor organ » and got the call
to say that a kidney and pancreas
had become available at 3am.
He was then rushed from his home
in Plymouth, Devon to Oxford for the
operation.
But when he arrived he was told
that the organs had come from the
victim of a drugs overdose - and it
would be two weeks before they
knew if the organs were HIV free.
Tony, 40, was born with type 1
diabetes, and his kidneys began to
fail by the time he was 32, but he
had to wait four years until a kidney
became available.
But he was faced with a dilemma
when one became available - carry
on living with his dying kidney, or
risk becoming infected with HIV » .
He has spoken out as part of World
Kidney Day.
Tony said: "They showed me into a
room and told me the donor organs
had come from a death by drug
overdose and asked if I still wanted
to go ahead.
"Because the person died by drug
overdose they wouldn't know
whether the donor had HIV for two
weeks.
"It was a scary process having to say
yes or no after sitting in the back of
an ambulance for hours.
"Do I risk it and say yes, or do I say
no and wait another 18 months, or
even longer. I went ahead with it."
www.pulse.com.gh/filla/dying-slowly-man-forced-to-choose-kidney-failure-or-take-hiv-infected-organ-id3566606.html

malaria is worse than HIV..

infact this HIV freshness ehn better pass kidney wahala.

choice ur choose Mister. u did d right thing

I think he made the right decision. Hiv can easily be managed with HAART.

Right choice tho'