![The ailing Diane Williams [right] with her sister and donor Paula Williams on one of the former’s “strong days”. On certain days, the two explained, the 22-year-old is usually bed-ridden and suffering from chills and pain.](https://s1.stabroeknews.com/images/2011/12/20111203kidney.jpg)
The family of 22-year-old Diane Williams is appealing for financial assistance from the general public as the future of the Berbician woman, who is suffering from renal failure, hangs in the balance.
The young woman was diagnosed with a renal condition which developed into chronic renal failure (shrunken kidneys) in January of this year. Her elder sister Paula Williams has volunteered to donate one of her kidneys to her ailing sibling. However, a kidney transplant remains distant since the family has to raise some $3 million to offset medical costs for the operation.
The young Williams, who hails from Islington Village, East Bank Berbice, was first admitted into the New Amsterdam Hospital in January of this year with high blood pressure. In pain, sitting on a