Monrovia – Representative Eugene Fallah Kparkar (Liberty Party, District #1, Lofa) is said to be ailing and his party, calling for prayers and support as he undergoes a ‘very critical’ bone marrow operation in India.
“He is critically ill. At this moment, Hon. Eugene F. Kparkar needs your prayers. He does not need “Rest in Peace” or “RIP”.
We wish him speedy recovery, and may the will of our Lord prevail,” Abraham Darius Dillon, the party’s Vice President for Political Affairs posted on his Facebook discussion page Thursday.
FrontPageAfrica has learned that one of the promising political forces in the lower house was recently flown to India for treatment. He has been ailing for quite some time.
“He is on life-support and undergoing a bone marrow operation and will be in coma for three days,” said a party official, speaking on condition of anonymity.
“If he comes out he will live and we are hopeful and praying. But it’s 50-50. It is a slow recovery,” the official added.
A bone marrow transplant is a procedure to replace damaged or destroyed bone marrow with healthy bone marrow stem cells.
Bone marrow is the soft, fatty tissue inside your bones.
The bone marrow produces blood cells. Stem cells are immature cells in the bone marrow that give rise to all of your different blood cells.
Doctors believe that for many cancers, the donor’s white blood cells may attack any remaining cancer cells, similar to when white cells attack bacteria or viruses when fighting an infection.
Doctors usually recommend a bone marrow transplant if a patient has certain cancers, such as leukemia, lymphoma, myelodysplasia, and multiple myeloma.
Representative Kparkar who assumed office in January 2006 was born in Foya District, Lofa county to a mid-wife mother (Ma Betty) and a teacher father (Papa Joe), both deceased.
He attended primary school in Foya and Kolahun districts respectively in Lofa County. As a refugee in the early 1990s, he partially did his secondary school education in Guinea and later came to Monrovia in 1997 and graduated from the G. W. Gibson High School with distinction.
Rep. Kparkar matriculated to the University of Liberia, where he received a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Economics in 2005/06 and a Master’s degree in International Relations with distinction. Kparkar got his second master’s degree with distinction in Public Sector Management in 2015 at the Cutting University.