Governor Hochul has announced that financial assistance for SUNY Downstate is contingent upon its closure.
OP-ED: Closing SUNY Downstate would be a disaster for Black and low-income kidney transplant candidates
Following decades of financial disinvestment in SUNY Downstate, one of Brooklyn’s largest and most important hospitals, by prior administrations, It is unconscionable for her to link financial support to the closure of a vital healthcare institution that serves as a lifeline for our community. SUNY Downstate serves patients like me, Nardel Joseph. I am 34 years old, and I have relied on dialysis to stay alive since 2018 due to end-stage renal disease. Over the past six years, it’s been very difficult to work and live a normal life. For most of this time on dialysis, I believed that I was not eligible for a kidney transplant because of my immigration status and lack of Social Security number.
For those who have received their transplants at SUNY Downstate, the majority of whom are covered by public insurance like Medicaid and the Essential Plan, connecting with the specialized medical care needed to preserve the transplanted organ could prove difficult, if not impossible, given the limited uptake of such insurance at private hospitals.would have on current patients, the restructuring relies on the proposed transfer of patients to already overcrowded hospitals.
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