(SAN DIEGO) -- Homer Rivera spent seven years waiting for a kidney, but the hospital has canceled his Nov. 20 transplant because of a possible hospital workers’ strike.
“I was infuriated,” Rivera told ABC affiliate KGTV in San Diego. “I was upset. All this planning has gone into this, and all of a sudden my day gets canceled.”
The University of California San Diego Medical Center in Hillcrest said it had to cancel the transplant because of an impending union strike over “reckless and unsafe staffing,” according to a statement health care workers’ union AFSCME gave to KGTV.
Rivera, a father of three who has spent the past year on dialysis, said he found a kidney donor on Facebook who lived in Tennessee and had already paid for her travel and lodging during the surgery, according to the station. Because the donor lived out of state, Rivera’s insurance did not pick up that cost.
The hospital told Rivera it couldn’t schedule another surgery until 2014, he told KGTV.
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