Youth minister needs new kidney
A youth minister and chaplain in Bridgeport is asking for the community's help to find him a new kidney. Jose Ortiz says he has been sick and on dialysis for more than a year since his kidneys failed.
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Mar 27, 2015, 3:09 PM
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Updated 3,452 days ago
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A youth minister and chaplain in Bridgeport is asking for the community's help to find him a new kidney.
Jose Ortiz says he has been sick and on dialysis for more than a year since his kidneys failed.
He's been on a waiting list for a transplant ever since.
Doctors say potential kidney donors need to have blood type O to match Ortiz.
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