AHMEDABAD: Marital dispute with wife is preventing a 40-year old man suffering from renal failure to receive kidney transplant as she’s not granted him consent, necessary by law, to look for a donor outside the family. Doctors treating the man require wife’s consent to look for other kidney donors after failing to find a donor match within the family. The patient and his wife separated four years ago and in July 2016 filed divorce proceedings by mutual consent on the condition that he would pay her Rs 10 lakh as one-time settlement.The woman has laid the condition of first being fully paid before she gives her consent due to which precious time has been lost in treating the patient. Jitendra Yadav, a resident of Chandkheda in Ahmedabad, stays with his 60-year-old mother Veena. He earlier worked with a private insurance company and is unemployed since renal failure. His wife Jagruti, 36, whom he married in 2008, no longer stays with him. After four years of marriage, they separated in 2012. Both of them filed for divorce by mutual consent in July 2016 and settled that Jitendra would pay Jagruti Rs 10 lakh as one-time alimony.Jitendra deposited Rs 3 lakh first installment in the court after which he fell seriously ill. Doctors found that both his kidneys had failed and he needed to undergo transplant. After failing to find a match from within the family, doctors needed to find an outside donor for which they got the consent of everyone but the patient’s wife. Jitendra told Mirror: “When I approached my wife to grant consent, she outright refused. She laid the condition for first being paid the pending alimony amount of Rs 7 lakhs.” His mother said: “We are in a very tight situation.We have already spent around Rs 7.5 lakh after my son’s treatment while the Rs 7 lakh alimony payment is still pending.” However, now the doctors at the Institute of Kidney Disease and Research Center (IKDRC), Civil Hospital , have said the patient can submit the copy of divorce application which will not require wife’s consent. To add to the woes of the patient, his mother Veena told Mirror: My daughter-inlaw Jagruti has even written an application to the president of our residential society that she legally holds equal right over the house where we stay and that they should not entertain any attempt to sell the house without her consent.”Jitendra said: “I may have to sell this house as a kidney transplant will cost me Rs 30 lakh. But I won’t be able to sell it as my wife has put spanner in the works.” Jagruti’s advocate P J Rathore, while defending his client, told Mirror: “It is a false allegation that my client has refused to give consent for finding a kidney donor outside the family. It is true that my client’s husband is yet to pay Rs 7 lakh, out of Rs 10 lakh settlement reached.” Talking to Mirror, Jagruti said: “Jitendra’s family members first sought my consent two months ago. But thereafter no one has met me again.” In the meantime, Jitendra’s mother has found work in a nearby bakery to take care of mounting medical expenses.(Names changed to protect identities)