14-year-old girl with cloudy eye condition seeks help to get corneal transplant

A 14-year-old lady affected by a watch situation that impacts her imaginative and prescient is asking for assist to get a corneal transplant.

According to a report on “24 Oras,” Wednesday, Kim Clores has congenital hereditary endothelial dystrophy, which is characterised by cloudy corneas.

“Ito ay inborn na nagiging parang cloudy parang mapusyaw na ma-bughaw ‘yung corneas,” stated Dr. Tonton Pascual, Ophthalmologist, Corneal and External Disease Specialist at Asian Hospital and Medical Center.

“Dahil may pagkacloudy ‘yung cornea or malabo, hindi makapasok ng maayos ‘yung ilaw so malabo ‘yung paningin. Minsan sumasakit din, humahapdi,” he added.

Her siblings, Roildan and Rayven, additionally suffered from the identical situation, however they bought corneal transplants in 2012 and 2017 because of the GMA Kapuso Foundation, volunteer medical doctors, and the Eye Bank Foundation.

Kim was additionally purported to have her operation then, however she was typically sick.

She prays day by day to have an operation as a result of she experiences difficulties in finding out as she will be able to see little or no gentle. She stays up nearly to the wee hours of the morning to take action.

“Pinipicturan ko ‘yung mga binabasa ko at sinusulat tapos izoo-zoom ko na lang po para basahin o sulatin,” she stated.

“Mahapdi ‘yung mata, nagluluha kasi parang irritated siya sa araw. Pasok pa rin kasi ayaw niyang mag-absent,” stated Roslaina, Kim’s mom.

“Sana po maoperahan na ako para ‘yung mga gusto kong gawin magawa ko na,” Kim stated, including, “Sa mga nanonood, sana po tulungan n’yo po ako.”

For those that wish to assist Kim, it’s possible you’ll ship your donations via financial institution deposits, Cebuana Lhuillier, GCash, Shopee, PayMaya, Zalora, MegaMart, Globe Rewards, Metrobank bank card, and Lazada.

For extra data, go to the GMA Kapuso Foundation web site.

—Kimberly Tsao/MGP, GMA Integrated News

Source: www.gmanetwork.com