I belong to an ever-increasing group of individuals who have been ignored. We are transplant recipients.

I was ill for about 16 months before my transplant and was in hospital for the last year of my illness, although I was able to get home periodically.

Transplantation is an ongoing battle throughout our lives.

Once a person receives an organ, there is the constant battle with rejection and weight, as well as other problems with the side-effects of the drugs, like kidney damage from Tacrolimus.

I take nine medicines and have to pay for prescriptions, as do all transplant patients who are working.

I know there is an annual payment scheme of which I am a member, but not all can afford the costs of the periodic subscription.

There is a system in place to give free prescriptions to certain patients like diabetics, but as the list is archaic and was created before transplants were so successful, transplant patients have never been considered.

I thought I would contact Dr Evan Harris, MP for Oxford West and Abingdon, to see if he would champion our cause as this issue is countrywide, not just in Oxfordshire. However, after two lost letters, one acknowledged and never followed up by his office, I am nowhere.

I hope you will print this letter as a reminder to Dr Harris to do something about it. I will not turn a blind eye, as his office has done. I will follow this through until the Government does something about it. I am lucky that I can afford my medication, but there are thousands of others who have been put in this situation through no fault of their own and they cannot afford it.

Why should transplant patients be singled out to pay for their medication when their pills are for life, not to eleviate a condition? This attitude of all Governments to ignore us is unacceptable.

JOHN MONAGHAN Cotman Close Abingdon