The Jordanian (Umm Ahmad, 57 years old) has suffered from rheumatoid disease for 20 years, which caused her deterioration in her health, and three years ago with chronic pulmonary fibrosis and heart disease, and need monthly medications for life, costing 59 thousand dirhams.
"I got rheumatoid disease 20 years ago," Um Ahmad says. "It started to progress with me until three years ago I had chronic lung fibrosis, when I first discovered it at Sheikh Khalifa Medical City. I got very slow movement, shortness of breath. I was taken directly through the emergency department to the hospital, and I was examined and discovered there. Rheumatoid disease caused me lung damage, in addition to several health problems, even a negative impact on heart health.
She added that «doctors in Sheikh Khalifa Medical City dispensed very expensive medicines, and I had your aid card, which was spent to the people of determination, and the card was paid for the expenses of treatment in full, but three months ago expired date of the card, was canceled, and refused to renew, and asked me to go to institutions I found no response from these charities. ”
"My current medicine costs up to 59,000 dirhams per month, which is beyond my family's modest financial means, even my family is unable to get my health insurance card," she said.
“I finally got pulmonary artery inflammation in its final stage. I am currently living in a wheelchair and on the oxygen system. I just wish to return to my normal life. "And my weight is increasing. Doctors at Cleveland Hospital in Abu Dhabi have advised me to have a lung transplant, but it has cost millions. I don't know what to do under the circumstances."
She explained that «my family members number three sons, and my husband is unemployed, as he was working for a residence in a private company, and my eldest working with a modest salary and support his family, and we are living conditions not known only to God, so I appeal to help me on the cost of medicines monthly , Or help me with the cost of a lung transplant or a health insurance card, so that I can dispense medicines without financial burdens. ”
Lung transplantation
According to the medical report issued by Sheikh Khalifa Medical City in Abu Dhabi, Umm Ahmed needs monthly life-long medications, costing 59,000 dirhams, or having lung transplant surgery at Cleveland Hospital, or obtaining a health insurance card. She had an Aounak card, but it ended three months ago. It has not been renewed.