[mitigo_animus]

Having a renal transplant is just the begining. The main cost starts when with the follow-up. There's the immunosupressive regimen which is extremely expensive. Then there's the follow-up, which needs to be regular and available to both donor and recipient. There needs to be medical and psychological follow-up.

Sure, Nepalese doctors can undergo training to do renal transplants, but can they guarantee full patient care? Until they can provide this, the doctors in Nepal should not consider doing transplants themselves.

Any money that is raised can only keep people on dialysis going for a few weeks. It is impossible to raise funds for all the possible patients who might undergo dialysis in the future.

The government needs to be the one putting money into training renal transplant surgeons, renal physicians, renal nurses, dieticians....basically a whole team in order to support renal patients. The demand for kidney transplant will only increase with time and Nepal does not have the resources to maintain patients on lifelong dialysis. Money needs to be going into Nepal's health service and not into the pockets of politicians!