Gui Hao is a 5 month old baby boy who has biliary atresia. Like Wei Hao, he was admitted to Wu Jing Zong Hospital in desperate need of a liver transplant. UFCO heard about the family’s story and went to meet them on a visit to see Wei Hao. The mother had heard about what we did for Wei Hao and got on the floor and begged us to help save her son. We told her we would do what we could to help save him.

Immediately following our meeting, UFCO’s board of directors voted to pay the RMB100,000 (USD14,286) necessary to save the child’s life. The mother was to be the living donor, donating a portion of her liver so that her son could live. Although we knew they would need much more than that beginning RMB100,000, we decided to give the amount necessary to undergo surgery and try to raise funds for future costs.

On June 20th, 2008, little Gui Hao underwent a successful surgery. The child is in ICU and his mother is in an inpatient room recovering. They have used up the RMB100,000 and are in need of more financial help. It costs around RMB10,000 (USD1,429) a day while the baby is in the ICU and for his first year of recovery, his medications will cost around RMB70,000 (USD10,000). His mother’s surgery cost RMB20,000 and that is currently owed to the hospital. Today we were able to pay an additional RMB40,000 into their account but this will be used up quite quickly if the child stays in ICU.

We need the help of everyone reading this. The mother today told me, with tears in her eyes, that she would be willing to give up her child for adoption if it would guarantee he would grow up healthy, with his medical costs covered. I told her we would do our best to raise funds to help them continue to care for their child so that he wouldn’t be separated from his family.

If everyone who reads this story this month were to donate RMB1,000 towards the care of this family, we would be able to give over an additional RMB100,000 towards this child’s first year of post-surgery medication. Let us show his mother that she doesn’t need to give up her child in order to give him a chance for a healthy life.

Please send me an email to foundation@ufh.com.cn with the subject “Gui Hao” if you want to donate or if you want to help raise funds for this child.

A story was in a Beijing newspaper on June 3rd, 2008 and you can go to the following link to read it (it’s in Chinese but you can find a translation site to help you): http://news.idoican.com.cn/bjwb/html/2008-06/03/content_5868474.htm#

Thank you!
Sarah