Mr Kong Fook Seng may be turning 70 in October, but his kidney is 98 years old and counting. It used to belong to his late father Kong Wing Hing. “Having received a kidney from my father was God’s blessing, rather than having to lie down in bed to do...
“Having received a kidney from my father was God’s blessing, rather than having to lie down in bed to do dialysis,” said Mr Kong, who works in design project management at a semiconductor company.
Mr Kong said he became very lethargic and got exhausted easily – climbing the steps to an overhead bridge took him 15 minutes.Go to the GP, polyclinic if Covid-19 symptoms are mild, stop hospital bed crunchDr Sobhana Thangaraju, a senior consultant of renal medicine at the Singapore General Hospital and SingHealth Duke-NUS Transplant Centre, said chronic glomerulonephritis develops silently over several years and can lead to severe damage, resulting in irreversible kidney failure.
Mr Kong underwent haemodialysis for the next three to four months. In this procedure, a machine removes blood from the patient’s body, filters it through an artificial kidney and returns the clean blood to the body.
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