A Mother’s Trauma

Acute kidney injury cases are difficult to treat in some regions. The right medical equipment and specialists are not always available.

Raymundus Rikang

October 31, 2022

FROM behind a window glass, Eva Nurmala looked on as her daughter Nasifa was surrounded by a team of doctors at the Badan Pengusahaan Batam Hospital (RSBP Batam), Riau Islands, on the morning of Saturday, October 1. Several moments prior, a nurse informed Eva that her daughter had critical acute kidney injury. “The doctors pumped my daughter’s chest,” Eva said on Thursday, October 27.

That day, Nasifa, who was 2 years old and 7

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