Lifesite -  A Michigan family filed a federal lawsuit against a hospital that is allegedly barring their adopted daughter from getting a much-needed kidney transplant due to her COVID-19 vaccination status.

Jenna Campau, the adoptive mother of 17-year-old Ukrainian girl Alisa, decided to pursue legal action after Spectrum Health and Helen Devos Children’s Hospital in Grand Rapids allegedly refused to put Alisa on the wait list for a kidney transplant because she was not vaccinated against the coronavirus due to religious objections to the shots.

According to the lawsuit, the hospital’s vaccination policies “effectively require the Plaintiff to either violate her religious beliefs or deny her daughter life-saving medical care.”

Diagnosed with renal failure, Alisa is on twice-a-week dialysis treatments to keep her single remaining kidney functioning, making getting a transplant a matter of urgency.

Despite the critical nature of the situation, however, hospital officials have reportedly refused to allow Alisa to take a spot on the wait list because she hasn’t received the experimental COVID-19 injections, which are part of the required regimen for receiving a transplant.

Campau told LifeSiteNews in a phone interview late last month that the effort to get Alisa on the wait list is rapidly nearing a crucial deadline.

“If we’re going to move forward with a transplant, she really needs to get on the pediatric list before she turns 18 in July, because the wait time is much shorter for those who are able to get on the pediatric list,” the girl’s adoptive mother said.

While the median wait time for adults to get a kidney transplant is 3.6 years, according to the National Kidney Foundation, Campau said her daughter could get a new kidney in mere months if she is able to get on the pediatric wait list before she turns 18.

Desperate to get Alisa the care she urgently needs, Campau got in touch with nonprofit organization We The Patriots USA co-founded by attorney Brian Festa, which set up a fundraiser page and connected the family with outside legal counsel.

Donate to help the Campau family fight to obtain a life-saving transplant for their daughter here.

On May 13, attorneys Norm Pattis and Christopher DeMatteo of Pattis & Smith, along with local Michigan counsel attorney James A. Thomas, filed a federal lawsuit in the Western District of Michigan, naming Jenna Campau as the plaintiff.

In an email to LifeSiteNews on Wednesday, Festa said the lawsuit was filed even though the family hasn’t yet reached their funding goal of $50,000, “because there is no time to waste for this girl.”

“With end stage renal disease, it is critical that she be placed on the high-priority pediatric transplant list before she turns 18 on July 15th,” Festa explained.

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