Our organ donation shame: Fareez waits for new life

FOR the past 18 months Fareez Mahin has spent up to seven hours a day hooked up to a dialysis machine, waiting for a kidney transplant. 
 
The seven-year-old boy, who should be at school and playing with his mates, has end-stage kidney failure and has dialysis five days a week at The Children's Hospital Westmead.

His heartbroken mother, Farhana, just wants a normal life for her son.

Fareez's condition means he can only drink 500ml of water a day, leaving him constantly thirsty. "He says to me that he needs a million billion drinks," Mrs Mahin told The Sunday Telegraph.   More Read