My dad, Arnold Lal­loo, was suf­fer­ing from re­nal fail­ure. Every time he heard the doc­tors men­tion the word "dial­y­sis" he would think it was the end of the world. He was hos­pi­talised of­ten, could not eat cer­tain things, had leg pains, etc.

Thank­ful­ly, he on­ly had to do one ses­sion of dial­y­sis and I would like to thank the med­ical team at the Na­tion­al Or­gan Trans­plant Unit at the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex for co-or­di­nat­ing every­thing so quick­ly for his re­nal trans­plant so he didn't have to go through the or­deal of be­ing on dial­y­sis.

This team is very, very spe­cial. I found their Web site on the In­ter­net and made an ap­point­ment with a so­cial work­er, Ms Samuel, to dis­cuss the pos­si­bil­i­ty of re­nal trans­plant for my dad. The so­cial work­ers at the unit are very pleas­ant and are trained per­fect­ly to deal with pa­tients with these health con­di­tions.

I was my dad's kid­ney donor. The unit car­ried out every test pos­si­ble to en­sure that I would re­main in good health. Every­thing was co-or­di­nat­ed per­fect­ly be­fore, dur­ing and af­ter the surgery. The treat­ment we re­ceived was be­yond ex­cel­lent. The doc­tors and nurs­es were so car­ing.

To this team-Dr Leslie Roberts, Mrs West-Wood­ing, Mrs John­son, Ms Samuel, Ms Spencer, Dr Chad Bisam­bar, Dr Samuel and his team of doc­tors, the nurs­es at Hi­bis­cus Suite and High De­pen­den­cy Unit-I would like to say thank you for giv­ing my dad a new life. I pray that more pa­tients with re­nal fail­ure could un­der­go re­nal trans­plant un­der this team and I know that they will feel as blessed as us af­ter meet­ing such car­ing peo­ple.

Vidya Lal­loo

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