Givealittle for my mum Fe Cynthia Posadas Dumlao's new heart

PLEASE HELP US SAVE MUM’S HEART

I’m GC Angelo, a Filipino citizen married to a registered nurse Filipina permanent resident in Palmerston North. All my life revolved in the Church as I had been training to be a Catholic priest for 14 years but chosen the path of married life. We are 3 in the family, I am the eldest currently searching for a job and facing visa issues. My father Gerald has been farming in the Dairy down Southland since 2008. My mother Fe Cynthia had been a caregiver in a Homecare for the Aged and had recently resigned from her job as a sling sorter for Craigpine Timber Ltd. due to severe rheumatic mixed mitral valve disease which will need a mitral valve replacement surgery in her heart soon. She joined my father here back in 2010. Their sole purpose of migrating here was to give us a decent education and provide our basic needs.

My father, 49 y.o., after putting down roots and settling for 10 years in NZ, once had a dream for a family reunification a year ago when he applied for residency under Skilled Migrant Category but was declined. My youngest brother AJ Brandan left Philippines on 2015 to live with us and study here in his 13th year in Central Southland College but has returned back home to the Philippines after an unsuccessful residency application. Now he is taking up Civil Engineering in his first year. My mother, 52 y.o., whose diagnosis on her heart condition came as a surprise to the family at a time we have nothing much to support her and at a time my parents are buried in debts. I mean my father is the only one left working for the family now and his work visa will soon expire on May 2017 with no certainty if he will get approved for a new one again as he also suffers from Thrombocytopenia (deficiency of platelets in the blood. This causes bleeding into the tissues, bruising, and slow blood clotting after injury).

Immigration New Zealand carefully assesses applications of working migrants re their health condition if they are fit to work. Every 36 months every worker on a temporary basis is required to have general medical tests and chest-Xray. Once INZ assessed one’s health as unacceptable because it will impose significant cost to NZ public funding regardless on the years one has worked here they will no longer issue a work visa. This is what happened to my mother in bad faith. She was found to have a heart disease at the time she was renewing her visa. She is sick and needs urgent medical attention. Her left atrium has been severely dilated because it's having hard time to pump blood through the chambers of her heart. She is easily exhausted catching up her breath from a normal day-to-day chores. She is experiencing a lot of chest pain and fatigue. She has been having blood test once weekly to monitor her Warfarin (blood thinner) intake in prevention of blood clotting in her brain or heart. She is prone to cardiac arrest at this time while surgery is not yet performed.

It pains us as we see it unfair that she was not given the right to medical treatment as what an ordinary worker has the right to. However, we are helpless because it is what INZ rules are about.

My father has already sold things worth of selling to shrink expenses for mom’s treatment and heart mitral valve replacement in the Philippines. He has also sold the family car. This procedure is not currently funded in the Philippines as a third world country. The surgery alone will cost us from 650,000 pesos which is equivalent to $20,000 excluding other procedures like pre-op, post-op, rehabilitation, anaesthesia, medication etc. My parents have no health insurance and it was a big mistake on their part.

As a son, a witness to a mother’s love, through this Givealittle page you can help me give my mom a new heart.

Nota Bene:

Any UNUSED FUNDS will be donated to HEART FOUNDATION NEW ZEALAND.

https://www.heartfoundation.org.nz