Baby gets ‘key’ to liver transplant
Man gives up car to help friend’s daughter
AN entrepreneur in Johor Baru sold his BMW 328i for RM100,000 to help fund a liver operation for a friend’s baby girl in China next week.
The infant’s mother, Norazreena Ahmad, 36, told Harian Metro that the family needed RM180,000 for 11-month-old Alfieya Masri’s transplant at Renji Hospital in Shanghai.
“After hearing about my child’s health problem and how important a liver transplant is to her, my friend put the key of his BMW on Alfieya’s chest and said the car belongs to her now,” said a grateful Norazreena at her home in Bandar Baru Uda.
Norazreena, who stopped working to care for her daughter, said she would be donating 30% of her liver to her daughter.
Her husband, Masri Moien, 36, earns a moderate income in the private sector.
She said China is the cheapest option as a similar surgery in India and Singapore costs RM250,000 and RM1mil respectively.
Other charity groups have donated, but the family is still short of RM20,000.
> Days after Harian Metro reported about two Sabahan siblings born with blue eyes, the daily highlighted three other siblings in the state with a similar eye colour.
Rusyduddin Ronaldo Lee, 18, was often
My friend put the key of his BMW on Alfieya’s chest and said the car belongs to her now.
Norazreena Ahmad
taunted in school due to his blue eyes.
“When I was in Year One, my friend, coming out of the toilet, suddenly screamed hantu (ghost). After that I hid under the table out of shame,” he told the paper.
Rusyduddin said he had low self-esteem until he got used to the teasing in secondary school.
As for his brother Refnaldi Ronaldio, 16, and sister Shahirah Batrisyia, three, only one of their eyes is blue.
Their mother, Amy Sofea Wasli, 40, said having blue peepers runs in the family; one of her aunt’s children also has blue eyes.
A spokesman from Likas Women and Children’s Hospital said the occurrence of one or two blue eyes is rare, at one in every 50,000 births, according to online medical journal