Kidney wait could take 5-7 years, says Bronx man whose sister died in transplant

New York Post | Daniel Prendergast


Roberto Medina is waiting by the phone for a call that may take five to seven years to come.

Medina joins 7,896 other New Yorkers hoping to get kidneys from dead donors. He was told he’s No. 600 on the list.

“After all this, I really have no hope,” a disheartened Medina told The Post at his home in The Bronx.

Medina was crushed on Friday, after the United Network for Organ Sharing said it could not favor him “based on compassionate grounds” after his sister Yolanda died May 23 in a botched surgery at Montefiore Medical Center.

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