New Delhi: PM Modi waxed eloquent in USA not long ago about his cabinet colleague Shushma Swaraj’s altruist aunty role on micro blogging site Twitter. But ask those waiting for kidney transplant for years.

They are miffed at her because the twitter do-gooder is allegedly lukewarm to their tales of woes, though she herself has gone through the trauma of kidney failure.

When she got kidney transplant in AIIMS, hopes floated for a large number of chronic kidney patients in India, who have been waiting long for kidney donors for transplant. They hoped kidney transplant might be a little easier for them too, even if not as easy as in Sushma ji’s case. They also hoped that she would serve as an ambassador for their cause and do utmost for augmenting cadaver kidney donations. She would also try to get organ donation law changed to make it recipient friendly. But she did not measure up to their expectations.

In a press conference for a successful kidney transplant in a 3 year old girl not long ago, the transplant doctors complained that Sushma Swaraj has cold shouldered the kidney sufferers. She did not even respond to their tweets. When Medicare News talked to some members of ‘Kidney Warriors’, a coalition of chronic kidney patients waiting for transplant, they expressed their disdain for the altruist aunty. The doctors said they had prompted their kidney patients to tweet to Sushma Swaraj to ask for running a campaign for them. But they felt disappointed because she did not even so much as respond to their tweets.