Dr Jack Amana, 55, Deputy Chief Heart Physician/Cardiologist at the Sir Buri Kidu Heart Institute was diagnosed with Stage 3 Cancer of the mouth or squamous cell carcinoma in August this year and urgently needs funds for his treatment overseas.
“Dr Amana has helped a lot of people and has touched a lot of lives so we really want to return this favor by making sure he gets the best treatment.”
“We have been outsourcing his medication from Australia through Sesago Pharmacy.”
“So far, he has completed a 6-cycle treatment at the Port Moresby General Hospital,” said his sister, Mrs Ruth Mays.
Mrs Mays said that his 6-cycle treatment of immunotherapy treatment with cetuximab injection costs K15, 000 per week and he will need another 6-cycle treatment before travelling down to Raffles Hospital for further investigation and treatment between December and January of next year.
She also said that Dr Amana needs an estimate of K250,000 for him to receive the Post Chemotherapy treatment.
The family has previously had mini fundraisers by selling food packs and Mumu dishes to start of the fundraising for Dr Amana’s Medical Appeal, however still need to raise more funds to make the trip possible.
There will be a corporate fundraising dinner to raise funds for Dr Amana to travel to Raffles Hospital, Singapore for the post chemotherapy treatment.
The dinner is set to take place on the 4th of December at the Dynasty restaurant inside Vision City.
“We originally planned to have the dinner in October but we could not do so due to the C19 measures in place in the city.”
“We have written a letter to the Controller and we have gotten approval to have the dinner in December.”
Mrs Mays added that they had hoped to have about 500 people for the dinner however due to the C19 restrictions, they’ve been given approval to have only 100 people at the fundraising dinner.
The Family has created a Trustee account with Kina Bank and they have been receiving donations from family and friends which has covered the costs of his medical treatments so far.
Mrs Mays thanked everyone that has helped out in donations of cash and kind to date.