Shop advert to appeal for kidney

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The family of a mother who needs a kidney transplant has resorted to placing an advert in an Edinburgh shop window appealing for a donor.

Suraiya Ahmed, 29, who is very weak in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary has six months to find a kidney after suffering failure when seven months pregnant.

She gave birth to Liyana on Easter Sunday by caesarean section, despite only having 7% kidney function.

The window advert is in Accha Oriental Food Company in Fountainbridge.

One of Mrs Ahmed's sisters, Nasima Zaman, 34, told BBC Scotland news website the family was "very worried and anxious".

The mother-of-two said: "Suraiya was very much alive and kicking before routine blood tests while she was pregnant showed her kidneys weren't functioning.

"She had no symptoms and no idea there was anything wrong.

The kidneys filter the blood before reabsorbing materials such as glucose

"She has not been eating and is now very weak and Liyana is being looked after by nurses in an incubator.

"We are so upset and had no idea this was going to hit us but hopefully we can find a kidney donor."

Mrs Ahmed, who is the third of five children, was seven months pregnant with her first child when she was told she had kidney problems.

She was due to give birth on 15 April but had to undergo an emergency caesarean section three days before the date.

Mrs Ahmed's father died of kidney failure while she was at Orwell Primary School in Dalry and she was taken to Bangladesh with her mother to complete secondary school before she returned to Edinburgh to live.

Mrs Ahmed is on maternity leave from her job as sales assistant at Superdrug in Princes Street.