A young woman from Tumahole desperately needs a kidney transplant.
For 25-year-old Adelaide Mofube, it has been an uphill battle with her health for the past nine years. In 2016, she started showing symptoms including shortness of breath, swelling of her legs and face, and bleeding.
The symptoms worsened before she was finally diagnosed with kidney failure in 2017 after months in hospital. At that time Adelaide was in matric.

She now travels to Boitumelo hospital in Kroonstad three times a week for dialysis treatment, getting up at 04:00 in the morning to get to the hospital, and only arriving home late in the afternoon and sometimes even later depending on the transport service.

For Adelaide her only hope is to find a suitable donor. “I am already having side-effects with both my kidneys not working,” she says.

Her plea is for people to get tested as potential donors.

The Organ Donor Foundation can be contacted on the toll-free number 0800 22 66 11 or visit their webpage on www.odf.org.za Registering is easy and only takes one minute. To get tested as a kidney donor, you have to contact a transplant centre, undergo a medical evaluation including blood tests, urine tests, and potentially imaging and psychological assessments. The risks and benefits of donation will also be discussed with you by a medical team.