The family is well known to me.They are  in dire poverty and also in deep debts!
This 18 year old boy developed (Sub) Acute Liver failure , necessitating him to undergo a super urgent liver transplant surgery to save his life.
The family cannot afford such expensive treatment. His poor father did not have  the money to pay for a taxi ( not an ambulance) to get him transfered from a state Goverment run teaching hospital  to a  transplant centre where my dear friend  Dr Deepak Madhu  Gastroenterologist/ HPB Physician works . He and his colleagues worked tirelessly for the patient to get him this super urgent transplant. Hospital kindly agreed to proceed with  this expensive surgery with only less than 50% of the total cost paid as a deposit , upon assurance from him

I have taken on the responsibility to meet some of the  cost of treatment and  do various crowd funding initiatives like this.We dont want the family to be bothered by the burden of raising the fund when they are going through such dreadful time .The ( subsidised) cost for just the transplant alone is approximately £ 20000 The total cost of treatment is expected to be above £30000.

Boy's mother is the living donor. Surgery completed successfully by the Transplant team lead by eminent Transplant Surgeon Dr Venugopal by the early hours of the morning on 29th September at Lisie Hospital , Kochi, Kerala State, India . Thankfully both the boy and his mother are recovering well

I am passing on this  link to my UK friends and family to support the initiative. We seek to raise atleast 15% of the treatment cost through this appeal. I request you to  contribute in your capacity. I am very grateful to each and everyone who opens this link

Ps: I have the consents of the patient, his family , the healthcare professionals involved and the instituition for sharing the names as I recognise that this appeal maybe published on social media