UCHealth Denies Kidney Transplant To Unvaccinated Woman & Donor

Briefly the story is this. Somebody needs a Kidney transplant, but she and her donor both refuse to be vaccinated. Because of this, UCHealth (University of Colorado Health) are saying “Sorry, vaccine refusal means that we can’t do the transplant”.

That’s the brief elevator ride version. What I’m going to do now is to give you the longer version so that we can together mull over the details of what is going on here and how it has come to this.

Who is the patient?

The transplant candidate is Leilani Lutali from Colorado. She tragically has stage 5 renal failure.

To place that diagnosis in context for you, the scale runs from 1 to 5. Stage 5 is as critical as it gets. It means that her Kidneys are at risk of failure or have already failed. If you don’t have a working kidney then you need regular dialysis treatments to cleanse your blood.

Side notes: The general policy in the UK, Australia, and the US is that the government picks up the cost of dialysis. It can be just temporary while you wait for a transplant. If however a transplant is not possible, then it is a permanent regular treatment.

She has a donor. Leilani met her friend Jaimee Fougner at a bible study. Jaimee has volunteered to be a donor…