Chinese Mother Forced To Choose Which Son Will Receive Her Kidney

A distraught mother has been forced forced to make a heart-breaking decision over which of her desperately ill sons should receive her kidney.

Lian Ronghua was pictured in tears as she prepared to go into the operating theatre, after choosing the younger son, Li Haisong, 24.

Aspiring doctor Li Haiqing, 26, sacrificed his own health by urging his mother to save his sibling according to a report in The People’s Daily Online, saying: 'We will save little brother first.'

Distraught mother Lian Ronghua sits by the bed of her younger son Li Haisong before the surgery. She chose to give him her kidney instead of her other son Li Haiqing, who also desperately needs a transplant

The older brother Li Haiqing, left, urged his mother to choose his younger brother Li Haisong, right, knowing that he might never receive a kidney transplant. Both men suffer from debilitating kidney condition uremia

Ronghua is lifted to her bed by sick son Haiqing (second left) and husband Li Xuikai (second right), who wasn't able to donate a kidney to either of his sons due to high blood pressure

The transplant operation cost the family several thousand yuan, and the men’s father Li Xiukai said they might not be able to afford a second operation if a suitable donor is found for Haiqing.

Both men, from Quanzhou City in the Fujian Province of China, suffered from uremia – a condition that gradually leads to kidney failure – with a kidney transplant offering the only hope of a cure.

The entire family moved to Xiamen last year so that Haiqing could receive dialysis treatment on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, while Haisong underwent the same procedure on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.

Tests revealed that their 51-year-old mother was a suitable kidney donor for both brothers, but could only donate one organ. Their father was ruled out because of his high blood pressure.

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