‘Another stroke or further infection could be fatal’

THE family of Kiva Humphries, 16, from Deansgrange, Co Dublin, yesterday issued a fresh appeal for help in finding a donor as the risk of her catching a fatal infection increases on a daily basis.

Kiva, a pupil at Loreto Convent Foxrock, has been a patient at the Mater Hospital in Dublin since last February when she was struck down by an infection which caused severe, permanent damage to her heart muscles.

“It seemed like just some breathlessness or a bad flu at first but it soon became apparent that it was more complicated as Kiva had difficulty walking up the hill to her school,” recalls her mother Avril.