Arnav Gupta

On July 13, 2021, MOHAN Foundation’s Anudaan team received an email from Bombay Hospital and Medical Research Centre, Mumbai requesting financial aid for Rohit Singh Rajawat’s kidney transplant. He was suffering with chronic kidney disease. Rohit belongs to a poor family and could not have afforded the urgent kidney transplant that he was in need of, so the hospital took the decision to raise financial support for the transplant.

Anudaan Team contacted the hospital and Rohit’s family. After thorough discussion with the transplant coordinator at Bombay Hospital and Medical Research Centre and Rohit’s family members, Anudaan team decided to support the transplant.  As part of the core principles of Anudaan, the team believes in collaborative efforts by the treating hospital, applicant’s family, other NGOs to support underprivileged people. Hence, Anudaan team encouraged the hospital team to offer a discounted price for Rohit’s kidney transplant. MOHAN Foundation contributed Rs. 1 lakh. The family had also raised some money through crowd funding (Impact guru). Rohit successfully underwent kidney transplant on July 30, 2021.

‘No matter how hard life is, don’t lose hope’ – The saying stands true for 33 year old Rohit Singh Rajawat, a resident of Bhind, Madhya Pradesh. His father, Mr. Jagatpal Singh Rajawat is a farmer, earning approx. Rs. 60,000/per year. Farming is the only source of income for the family. With family’s meager income, his father could not afford the cost of son’s transplant which was initially Rs. 8.4 lakhs but thankfully was reduced to Rs. 4 lakh with efforts of MOHAN Foundation and with help from Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Mumbai. For a farmer, Rs. 4 Lakh is a huge amount to collect and give to the hospital. Hence, Rohit’s father had to borrow money from his relatives/friends and sold some part of his land but unfortunately, a huge part of the money was spent on Rohit’s regular dialysis, pre transplant health checkups and bed charges at the hospital. That is when; the hospital approached MOHAN Foundation for financial aid.

Rohit is passionate about computer hardware work and programme coding. Pre Transplant, he used to run cyber café and to get Annual Maintenance Contracts form the local companies for hardware installation, programme coding etc.  A father of twin sons and a daughter, he was living a beautiful life with his family until he heard about his kidney disease which completely changed his life.

In July, 2020, he started feeling uneasy. He was having breathing problem and coughing. His legs and hands started to swell. During that time, novel COVID-19 had hit India for the first time and everyone in the family suspected it to be COVID. He was immediately taken to Pariwar Hospital Multi Speciality & Research Center, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh. After several tests, the doctors informed the family that it was not covid but chronic kidney disease. This information of course came as shock for Rohit and the family.

Since Rohit’s health condition was not improving, the family members took him to SMS Hospital, Jaipur. But they had to return from there as SMS was not doing any elective transplants given their rising COVID load. Disheartened family returned back to Gwalior unsure about future course of action.  

One of their relatives suggested them to take Rohit to Bombay Hospital and Medical Research Centre.  Rohit was immediately admitted when he reached there. He had to start regular dialysis as his kidneys were no longer functioning. He was on dialysis till July, 2021.  The doctors counseled the family and advised them for kidney transplant which was the best option for Rohit to live a normal and happy life again. The family was informed about living kidney donation. After several tests, Rohit’s mother was found suitable to donate one of her kidneys. She gladly came forward to donate her kidney as it was a matter of her beloved son’s life. 

Both Rohit and his mother are now doing well. 

A post graduate in Masters of Commerce and a trained person in hardware networking, Rohit, now wants to fulfill his dream that is to become a successful businessman in the field of computer hardware and networking.

“My family and I thank MOHAN Foundation’s Anudaan Team for supporting us in the time of adversity and helping us to get through the tough time. Our family will always be grateful to them.” – Rohit Singh Rajawat