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24-Year-Old Given Months To Live Without Insurance

Source: Huffington Post

Nov 06, 2009

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Urangoo Baatarkhuyag, a Mongolian immigrant who moved to the United States eight years ago, has been told she will die because she does not have health insurance, reports Jed Boal for local NBC affiliate KSL. Baatarkhuyag, 24, was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia in September, after graduating from Utah Valley University earlier in the year.

Even though she is uninsured, the UVU Review reported that LDS hospital gave her one month of chemotherapy without charge, which cleared the cancer from her blood and drastically reduced it in her bone marrow. The cancer cells will return, though, according to doctors, and Baatarkhuyag's best hope is a bone marrow transplant, which costs $350,000. Without further treatment, doctors have predicted that she will die in the next two or three months.

Friends have started a website to request donations for her transplant and have raised over $42,000 as of Thursday -- though that is still far too little

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