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When Wasana Handuwala Dewage successfully underwent a kidney transplant in a Colombo hospital last September, she considered herself lucky - like the Sinhala meaning of her first name.
The teenager, now 16, who was born with a chronic kidney disease, was excited to return to school. But her family now worries if she will even survive.
