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Kidney transplant survivors and donors share success stories
“For me, age is just a number,” said Mohammed Lahiri (63), a kidney transplant survivor, stressing that the transplant was not a deterrent in any way to leading a normal life.
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Sapiens Health Foundation founder Rajan Ravichandran interacting with kidney transplant survivors and donors, in Chennai on Friday. (Photo | P Jawahar/EPS) By Express News Service
CHENNAI: ‘End-stage kidney disease is not end of life.’ That was the message conveyed at the World Kidney Day celebrations by the Sapiens Health Foundation on Thursday. The event saw scores of kidney transplant survivors and donors sharing experiences.
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Hale and hearty: World Kidney Day 2021 celebrations being held at Sapiens Health Foundation in Chennai on Thursday.
World Kidney Day event organised by Sapiens Foundation
Sixty-three-year-old Mohammed Lahiri goes paragliding every year.
“I have also gone for trekking and mountain climbing. I want to celebrate life in every possible way after nearly embracing death,” he said.
Mr. Lahiri went through a kidney transplant nearly 33 years ago and said he continued to do everything with ease.
Speaking on the occasion of World Kidney Day, organised by Sapiens Health Foundation, he said, “Now my next aim is to run half a marathon and climb to the base camp of Mount Everest. I want to live till the age of 100 to show the world that this could be the lifespan of a person who has undergone transplant.”