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Case of the Cuban girl Amanda: “Keep resisting”

The fundraising campaign on the GoFundMe platform has not responded to emails for the release of the money.

Amanda Lemus Ortiz y su mamá © Facebook/Lara Crofs
Amanda Lemus Ortiz and her mother Photo © Facebook/Lara Crofs

The Cuban girl Amanda Lemus Ortiz, who suffers from bile duct atresia and has been waiting for a liver transplant for a year, remains stable, activist Yamilka Lafita, known on social media as Lara Crofs, said on social media.

“Amanda has remained stable in her delicate situation while waiting for a liver transplant, which becomes more urgent as time goes by. “He continues to resist, and that only makes me think, one more day that we won,” the activist wrote on her Facebook profile. Facebook.

Regarding fundraising to achieve the transplant, he reported that “the GoFundMe He has not responded again,” adding that he is anxiously awaiting that email in which they will definitively release the funds to be able to carry out the operation.

He explained that despite the uncertainty over the delivery of the money, “hospitals continue to receive requests.”

Facebook Capture/Lara Crofs

Last Saturday, February 10, the campaign on the fundraising platform GoFundMe for the health of the Cuban girl Amanda Lemus Ortiz, exceeded the goal of $20,000. Currently, it is not closed and already reaches $21,548.

Recently Crofs announced that two hospitals were interested in Amanda's case. Although without giving details about them, he did add that parents are in the process of filling out the forms sent by those health institutions and then following the steps they indicate.

As for the GoFundMe He said that “it has continued to increase the money, since we have not yet been able to close it and withdraw the funds due to the series of complaints that the collection request received.”

He announced that conversations were being held via email with the platform to clarify the facts. “In an exchange of questions and answers from both parties, waiting for the funds to be released soon and to be willing to show them as tangible proof to the hospitals that they have the necessary funds for flight tickets, lodging and food,” he added. .

The campaign for Amanda's health gained new momentum at the beginning of this year, even though the request had been going on for months, when the The little girl's mother apologized for not being able to offer her the medical care and treatment she needs..

"I ask your forgiveness, my daughter, for being born into a poor family, for being the daughter of a worker, for not being the daughter of someone famous and powerful. I ask your forgiveness for not having parents with enough influence to buy you your health, to buy you the food you need, the medicines, the things that a girl like you needs," Mila Ortiz wrote on her networks.

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