Update 2026-02-10 – The Girls Are Ready to Come Home. The Bills Are Not.

After 31 days in the NICU at Chong Hua Hospital, we finally have good news: Arianna and Zarianna are medically stable. The doctors have confirmed that both girls have developed enough to be discharged.

But they can’t leave.

Under hospital policy, the twins cannot be released until the outstanding balance is paid in full. And every single day they remain in the NICU, the bill keeps growing – by thousands of pesos per day. We are trapped in an impossible cycle: the longer they stay, the higher the debt, the harder it becomes to pay, and the longer they have to stay.

	Arianna	Zarianna	Combined
Total charges	₱266,207 / €3,825 / $4,550	₱274,639 / €3,945 / $4,695	₱540,846 / €7,770 / $9,245
Already paid	₱111,220 / €1,600 / $1,900	₱101,220 / €1,455 / $1,730	₱212,440 / €3,055 / $3,630
Still owed	₱154,987 / €2,225 / $2,650	₱173,419 / €2,490 / $2,965	₱328,406 / €4,715 / $5,615

Miriam sold her car – her only valuable possession – to cover the initial costs. But that money had to stretch far: her own hospital bills for the emergency cesarean section, medications that in the Philippines must be purchased by patients’ families themselves rather than being provided by the hospital, and the first round of NICU charges. Combined with the donations raised through this campaign, a total of nearly ₱170,000 in partial payments has been made toward the twins’ hospital bills. There is nothing left.

We have written to the hospital administration requesting a partial payment arrangement that would allow the twins to come home while we continue raising funds for the remaining balance. We are not trying to avoid payment – we are trying to stop the bleeding so that full payment becomes possible.

The fundraising campaign has raised a fraction of what is needed. We need your help now more than ever – not just with donations, but by sharing this campaign as widely as you can. One share could reach the person who makes the difference.

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Every peso, every euro, every dollar, every share counts. Help us bring Arianna and Zarianna home.