Dialysis meeting this week

A meeting this week will decide the fate of Fijian-born Radhika Lal, the teenager due to have her life-saving dialysis treatment stopped at the end of the month.

Representatives of Auckland Hospital and insurance company International SOS will meet on Friday to determine what will happen after July 30, when the insurance company will stop paying for the dialysis.

Miss Lal has family in Australia, Papua New Guinea, and India, but none is a suitable donor for the kidney transplant she needs, which will cost $100,000 if carried out here.