Pastor with heart condition seeks Sh2.5m to save life

David Obedi, a pastor at Africa Inland church in Kisumu who needs sh. 2.5 million for a heart surgery following the burst of his aorta. [Photo:COLLINS ODUOR/Standard]

What started as a simple cough for Arina Church Pastor Daudi Obedi has now become a life-threatening condition. The Tanzanian national, who has been in the country since 2007, was in January diagnosed with aortic dissection in the ascending aorta, a fatal condition in which the inner layer of the aorta, the large blood vessel branching off the heart, tears.

Now the pastor urgently requires at least Sh2.5 million to enable him undergo urgent open-heart surgery in India.