Idi Amin needs a kidney donor

The Monitor (Kampala, Uganda) ^ | August 14, 2003 | David Kibirige

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Ex-leader's body has rejected two kidneys

Former President Idi Amin Dada's life is hanging onto a haemo-dialysis machine, which acts as an external kidney, family sources have said.

Amin needs a new kidney to stay alive, the sources added.

Medical sources told The Monitor that a dialyser is a piece of medical equipment through which blood is passed for purification, and then back into the body.

It is normally used with patients whose kidneys have failed.

The dialyser removes impurities like urea, excess salts and uric acid.

If the urea is not removed, it affects the brain among others things.

Amin was admitted to a Saudi hospital on July 18, where he has been battling for life since. Quoting medical sources, Reuters news agency reported on Sunday that Amin has only a few days to live.

Family sources said that when Amin was first admitted, dialysis was carried out once a week. When the condition deteriorated the frequency rose to three times a week.

As of yesterday, dialysis was being done after every one hour, indicating the gravity of the former leader's condition.

A source in Amin's family told The Monitor that two people have so far gone to Saudi Arabia to donate kidneys to the ex-leader.

However, both were found to be incompatible with the patient's.

Amin ruled Uganda from January 25, 1971 until a combined force of Ugandan exiles and the Tanzanian army ousted him on April 11, 1979.

He fled to Libya then Iraq before settling in Saudi Arabia in December 1980.

He has been surviving on a stipend offered by his hosts. The Saudi royal family is also picking Amin's hospital bills.

© 2003 The Monitor Publications

[dighton]

Idi Amin is slipping. When his soulmate Jack the Ripper wanted a kidney, he just took one.

[staytrue]

If the urea is not removed, it affects the brain among others things.

It seems to me, that the urea should have no effect. Idi Amin has no brain, therefore no effect.

[Doctor Stochastic]

I suppose his doctors understand the American slang phrase, "Fat Chance."

[lizma]

If the urea is not removed, it affects the brain

I think this would be an improvement.

[southernnorthcarolina]

I'd get myself tested for tissue compatability, but, ummm, I'm washing the dog that day.

[FlyVet]

Those who have taken so many lives, caused so much agony, in such fear of their own demise. How brave.

[July 4th]

This guy has died 7 times already. Sheesh.

[cartoonistx]

Oh that God of mine! What a kidder...NOT!

[El Gato]

Maybe Saddam or Osama would like to donate a couple of kidneys each to Doctor, President for Life, General, Idi Amin Dada. I'm sure a military surgeon can be found to attempt the transplants. Or maybe we could dig up the brothers Hussien and send their kidney's down for a go.

[swilhelm73]

If only he 'd saved his victims's kidneys as opposed to eating them.

Ah, hindsight really is 20/20! ;)

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

Kidney disease is very very painful.

Pity.

[MediaMole]

Maybe he ate the kidneys before his physicians could implant them. It wouldn't be the first time he did this.

Two questions though...

Why should he get a kidney before anyone else in the world?

Why won't he just Die?

[abishai]

I am sure the Saudi's have the power (tyranny) to find him a "donor". Maybe they don't like him either.

[Howlin]

[Fledermaus]

He'd eat it before they could transplant it.

[southernnorthcarolina]

I always make sure to give my kidneys lots of exercise.

[PhilDragoo]

John Loftus co-author of The Secret War Against the Jews was on Luis Gonzalez' FR Radio show earlier this year.

Loftus said Osama bin Laden is literally yellow due to having been sent a defective dialysis machine as part of the most successful covert op in some time.

Idi Amin suffering fills me with more schadenfreude than can be expressed in mere words.

Picture the entire Family von Trapp on the hilltop singing as the helicopter pans around for the final shot.

[L.N. Smithee]

Loftus said Osama bin Laden is literally yellow due to having been sent a defective dialysis machine as part of the most successful covert op in some time.

What's Arabic for "D'oh!"?