Help Eron Receive Life-Saving COVID care in Uganda
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UPDATE: This GoFundMe will no longer accept donations as Eron passed on this morning, June 16th. But Eron's family is eternally grateful for the generosity and compassion that you all have shown to her. Thank you so much for helping to give this wonderful person a fighting chance against COVID. Stay safe.
Please help my friend Eron pay for COVID ICU care, without which she will be removed from the hospital and removed from life-saving oxygen.
As many of you know, I am serving as a Physician Assistant in Kampala, Uganda with the US State Department. Uganda is in the first weeks of it's second wave of COVID, which is surely dominated by one of the variants - it's spreading like wildfire and landing many young people in the hospital. Uganda's hospitals - both public and private - are already completely, 100% full to COVID ICU patients.
My dear Ugandan friend Eron Namumbya has severe COVID and is intubated and on a ventilator in the last bed we could find in the entire country - but it also happens to be one of the most expensive private hospitals in the country. Medical care in Uganda is shockingly inexpensive compared to the US, but there is also minimal to no insurance system. If you do not pay as you go for private hospital care, you WILL NOT continue to receive care.
Eron's family lives on $315USD per month and she is the sole breadwinner. My husband and I are currently personally paying out of pocket for Eron's care at a rate of over $1,600 per day - we have invested over $6,000 in just four days. Peanuts compared to the US, but there is only so much we can do, and when we run out then Eron's care will be discontinued and she will tragically die unnecessarily. She is improving, and I am very hopeful that if she has continued access to ICU care, she will make it.
Please, consider contributing to the cost of her care. Any amount is absolutely appreciated. Prayers and good vibes are also most welcome.
Thank you so much.
Please help my friend Eron pay for COVID ICU care, without which she will be removed from the hospital and removed from life-saving oxygen.
As many of you know, I am serving as a Physician Assistant in Kampala, Uganda with the US State Department. Uganda is in the first weeks of it's second wave of COVID, which is surely dominated by one of the variants - it's spreading like wildfire and landing many young people in the hospital. Uganda's hospitals - both public and private - are already completely, 100% full to COVID ICU patients.
My dear Ugandan friend Eron Namumbya has severe COVID and is intubated and on a ventilator in the last bed we could find in the entire country - but it also happens to be one of the most expensive private hospitals in the country. Medical care in Uganda is shockingly inexpensive compared to the US, but there is also minimal to no insurance system. If you do not pay as you go for private hospital care, you WILL NOT continue to receive care.
Eron's family lives on $315USD per month and she is the sole breadwinner. My husband and I are currently personally paying out of pocket for Eron's care at a rate of over $1,600 per day - we have invested over $6,000 in just four days. Peanuts compared to the US, but there is only so much we can do, and when we run out then Eron's care will be discontinued and she will tragically die unnecessarily. She is improving, and I am very hopeful that if she has continued access to ICU care, she will make it.
Please, consider contributing to the cost of her care. Any amount is absolutely appreciated. Prayers and good vibes are also most welcome.
Thank you so much.
Organizer
Rebecca Nieves
Organizer
Dulles, VA