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9-month old baby needs financial support for June liver transplant

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Micaella Costales Ilao, ABS-CBN News

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2019/tvpatrol/04/04/20190407-baby.jpg"/><figcaption>Johnny Bumakil and his 9-month old baby Zhoewey, who suffers from chronic liver disease. Micaella Costales Ilao, ABS-CBN News</figcaption></figure></div>BAGUIO CITY - &quot;Mahirap, masyadong malaki yung amount, pero I know God will provide,&quot; said Johnny Bumakil as he and his wife sought ways to fund the surgery for their 9-month-old baby girl who has been diagnosed with chronic liver disease.(It&#x27;s difficult, the amount is too big, but I know God will provide.)Bumakil her daughter Zhoewey has difficulty sleeping every night, suffers from loose bowel, and has a distended belly.Physicians advised the family to let Zhoewey undergo a liver transplant operation. Both her parents are qualified organ donors. However, the cost of the operation is beyond their means.In the Philippines, a liver transplant operation costs P4 million to P5 million, Bumakil said.The Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office can offer a maximum of P1.5 million in aid while the social welfare department can grant up to P70,000, he said.<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2019/tvpatrol/04/04/20190407-baby2.jpg"/><figcaption>Nine-month old baby Zhoewey Bumakil has a distended belly as she suffers from chronic liver disease. Zhoewey needs a transplant operation. Micaella Costales Ilao, ABS-CBN News</figcaption></figure></div>A doctor and some friends advised the family to bring Zhoewey to India instead where the liver transplant operation would cost them P2.5 million.The family hopes to save money until June since Zhoewey needs to have the transplant 2 months from now.&quot;November po sana this year, pero biglang sabi po ng physician niya na June dapat mapalitan na yung liver niya. According sa physician niya may tendency na magkaroon ng complications sa other major organs niya pag di naoperahan agad,&quot; Bumakil added.(We were planning to have the operation in November, but the physician said the liver transplant needs to be done by June. The physician said there&#x27;s a tendency for her other organs to have complications if she&#x27;s not operated on soon.)Bumakil and his wife Brynette have been selling shirts outside the Baguio Cathedral church and already hosted a dinner-for-a-cause to cover for their financial needs.They both work in the government as social workers, but they said their monthly salaries will not be enough to cover all the medical expenses for their daughter.&quot;Pero at the end of the day God will provide. I think there is purpose. There is purpose kung bakit nangyari ito,&quot; Johnny said.The family is open for donations through their bank account: Brynette Angayen-Bumakil BDO 005180345074.

Baby Zhoewey needs a liver transplant, an operation that costs P4 million to P5 million in the Philippines.

Baby Zhoewey needs a liver transplant, an operation that costs P4 million to P5 million in the Philippines.

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9-month old baby needs financial support for June liver transplant

Micaella Costales Ilao,

ABS-CBN News

Published Apr 07, 2019 03:02 PM PHT

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