Making the rounds on social media is a sad video showing the beloved actor, Amaechi Muonagor lying still on a bed, requesting and calling on Nigerians for financial aid for a kidney transplant in India due to a ailing situation that has gotten dire. Equally seen next to him is Kingsley Orji, a fellow actor and friend to Amaechi.
Capturing this post on Instagram is the caption; “Special Public Appeal on our Veteran Nollywood actor Amechi Monagor, please my brothers and sisters lets help him more to go for the kidney transplant in india.”
Explaining the situation on ground, Kingsley said: “It has not been easy. He has been in this condition for months now. He wants to go for a kidney transplant. What we want is for you to help us for him to travel to India. He just came back from the ICU in Nnewi Teaching Hospital a couple of days ago. He was responding to treatment but not very well.”
Its important to note that in November 2023, Muonagor has earlier disclosed his kidney failure diagnosis stating;
I’m sick, this thing that is called stroke caught up with me, and from there they rushed me to the hospital. The first hospital they rushed me to was in Nnewi, where I spent some two months and I was referred to Teaching Hospital Nnewi and here I am. I was on a movie set with Emeka Ani, Patience Ozokwo, Rita Edochie, and Ebele Okaro. I was about to enter my car when I was struck with this problem, and since then it has been getting worse.”
“I’m calling on well-minded individuals to come to my assistance, to see how they can help me. It is paralysis, half of my body. Right now, I can’t move, I can’t walk on my own. Half of my left leg is paralyzed, so it is a problem for me.”