By Abigail Headley
When Nadia Budwah donated one of her kidneys to her son Aditya Mohabir in January of 2021, little did she know that two years later she would watch him suffer again and this time pass away due to bone cancer coupled with tuberculosis (TB).
At the time of the transplant, Aditya was 15-years-old and suffering from end-stage renal failure and was given a new lease on life as the surgery was a success.
However, in January of this year, shortly after the passing of his father and grandfather, Aditya began to experience fevers which was worrying to his mom. Nadia told Stabroek News (SN) that she contacted her son’s doctors to relay that he was ill and, given that he was a transplant patient they took caution with administering medications and monitored his condition (from home) for several days.
After the fever did not let up, the doctors advised Nadia to take her son in to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) where they discovered that his blood pressure was high and they admitted and monitored him for about two weeks. During this time they did follow-up tests, including an analysis of his kidney which proved to be in tip-top shape.