A 2-year-old boy who was denied a kidney transplant due to his father’s criminal history was rushed to the ER recently.
A 2-year-old boy in Atlanta who was recently denied a kidney transplant due to his father’s alleged behavior had to be rushed to the emergency room on Sunday to deal with a peritonitis infection. A.J. Burgess needs a kidney transplant but was denied one because of his father’s probation violation, leaving him fighting for his life for at least a few months, a story that has since gone viral.
Anthony Dickerson is a perfect match for his son and could donate the kidney that might save his life, but because he violated his probation recently, the hospital won’t let him donate it. Little A.J. was born without kidneys, and Emory Hospital told the family that if they wanted to save his life, the father would have to be on good behavior for the next three to four months, which the family fears might be too late to save him.
Now, the family is stuck waiting until January 2018 and hoping that the young boy can survive that long. The family’s attorney, Mawuli Davis, has released the following statement according to WBIR: “The family is asking for people of all faith traditions to be in prayer today for Baby AJ. His spirit is strong but his body is weakening.”
People are currently slamming the hospital on Facebook for refusing to help save the young boy based on his father’s behavior.
Adam Adolfo Yzaguirre: “A hospital that is shame based. This is a place that has no interest in ‘do no harm’. I hope you are sued and you loose your accreditation. You would not be doing this to AJ Dickerson if he were a white child. You have no credible or reliable reason to deny treatment on the base of prison sentiment of the parent. The father came in and was ready – and you turned him away. May God have mercy on your heartless souls. You’ll be forced to answer for your sins.”
Yukiko B Kudo: “Emory Hospital you are denying a life-saving kidney transplant from a matched and available donor to a two-year-old child AJ Burgess Dickerson. How cruel and inhumane.
“Emory Hospital states that they operate under core values, with their first core value being: caring. Caring: We demonstrate concern and compassion for our patients and their families, treating each person with dignity as we attend to the needs of the mind, body, and spirit. Denying a life-saving surgery to a family and child in need is not demonstrating concern and compassion. Having the ability to stop a child from suffering but choosing not to does not show dignity. You cannot pick and choose when to follow your own core values. They should be applied to every patient and every family, no matter the person or situation.
“I’ve created this petition to get the attention of The Living Donor Transplant Team at Emory Hospital and CEO of Emory Healthcare, Jonathan C. Lewin, with the hopes that the team will have a change of heart and perform the kidney transplant.”
Pauline Ratcliffe: “It is inhuman and uncivilised to punish an innocent sick child for the actions of his father. Doctors swear on an oath to always do their best for a patient. Either do your job or quit the job. If you do not operate you are not fit to practise.”
The following excerpt from Wikipedia describes Peritonitis, of which liver problems is one of the risk factors:
Peritonitis is an inflammation of the peritoneum, the thin tissue that lines the inner wall of the abdomen and covers most of the abdominal organs. Peritonitis may be localized or generalized, and may result from infection (often due to perforation of the intestinal tract as may occur in abdominal trauma or inflamed appendix) or from a non-infectious process.
The main manifestations of peritonitis are acute abdominal pain, abdominal tenderness and abdominal guarding, which are exacerbated by moving the peritoneum, e.g., coughing (forced cough may be used as a test), flexing one’s hips, or eliciting the Blumberg sign (a.k.a. rebound tenderness, meaning that pressing a hand on the abdomen elicits less pain than releasing the hand abruptly, which will aggravate the pain, as the peritoneum snaps back into place). Rigidity (involuntary contraction of the abdominal muscles) is the most specific exam finding for diagnosing peritonitis (+ likelihood ratio: 3.9). The presence of these signs in a patient is sometimes referred to as peritonism.[1] The localization of these manifestations depends on whether peritonitis is localized (e.g., appendicitis or diverticulitis before perforation), or generalized to the whole abdomen. In either case, pain typically starts as a generalized abdominal pain (with involvement of poorly localizing innervation of the visceral peritoneal layer), and may become localized later (with the involvement of the somatically innervated parietal peritoneal layer). Peritonitis is an example of an acute abdomen.
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