On Tuesday, April 2, 2024, distress messages were circulating on WhatsApp groups in search of O+ blood for a patient. The reason: severe anemia. The patient is oxygen-dependent. The message is short, simple, and alarming.

In the course of these efforts, a family member of the patient revealed in a telephone interview that the patient also suffers from chronic kidney failure. "He has been receiving dialysis sessions regularly for 3 months, but the most urgent need right now is for blood transfusions to address his anemia. However, we had planned to stop the sessions next week. He is not insured, and we don't have enough money. We are forced to stay at home with him," his sister says at the other end of the line. Yet she is not naive. She knows the consequences of this decision. She says, "To the impossible, no one is obligated."