...Requires N4.5m for corrective surgery in India
This young boy, Uchenna Ekezie, was born with what is described in medical parlance as maldeveloped external genitalia. In lay terms, he has no visible external male reproductive organs. Since birth, therefore, Uchenna cannot urinate normally, and there's no chance of him fathering children in future, if his condition is not corrected.
Uchenna hails from Umuariam Obowo LGA
of ImoState. he has undergone series of major surgeries at the Federal
Medical Centre, Umuahia. But he yet requires a total of N4.5 million to undergo
two more outstanding surgeries to complete his restoration.
The first surgery is for correction of the continuous dripping of urine, while the second surgery is for elongation of the rudimentary stump.
A medical evaluation by an IndianHospital in Abuja sent to FortisEscortsHospital, New delhi, India, from the Department of Surgery, Federal Medical Centre, QueenElizabethHospital, Umuahia, explained that Uchenna had the first surgery eight days after birth.
The Indian hospital is all set to correct this abnormality and restore Uchenna’s external genitalia to normal, but the obvious financial constraint is a stumbling block. Celestine, father of the poor child, has therefore appealed for urgent financial assiatance to enable the life-saving surgeries to commence.
“We have no kobo or even a fraction of this amount. Already we have spent all we have on his treatment and the family is broke. I even had to sell off all the cement bocks I moulded to build about four rooms, as well as the old car I was managing to provide for my family. We are now completely dependent on the response of generous Nigerians to out plea. Please help provide Uchenna with a better quality of life and offer us hope in humanity.”
•If you are touched and wish to assist Uchenna, kindly send your donations to Celestine Ejike Ekezie, First Bank of Nigeria Plc, 3303010231336, or call 08060658913 and 08136506718 for more details.
Culled from: Vanguard Newspaper
(We hope a lot of well-meaning Nigerians will see and respond to this)
This young boy, Uchenna Ekezie, was born with what is described in medical parlance as maldeveloped external genitalia. In lay terms, he has no visible external male reproductive organs. Since birth, therefore, Uchenna cannot urinate normally, and there's no chance of him fathering children in future, if his condition is not corrected.
The first surgery is for correction of the continuous dripping of urine, while the second surgery is for elongation of the rudimentary stump.
A medical evaluation by an IndianHospital in Abuja sent to FortisEscortsHospital, New delhi, India, from the Department of Surgery, Federal Medical Centre, QueenElizabethHospital, Umuahia, explained that Uchenna had the first surgery eight days after birth.
The Indian hospital is all set to correct this abnormality and restore Uchenna’s external genitalia to normal, but the obvious financial constraint is a stumbling block. Celestine, father of the poor child, has therefore appealed for urgent financial assiatance to enable the life-saving surgeries to commence.
“We have no kobo or even a fraction of this amount. Already we have spent all we have on his treatment and the family is broke. I even had to sell off all the cement bocks I moulded to build about four rooms, as well as the old car I was managing to provide for my family. We are now completely dependent on the response of generous Nigerians to out plea. Please help provide Uchenna with a better quality of life and offer us hope in humanity.”
•If you are touched and wish to assist Uchenna, kindly send your donations to Celestine Ejike Ekezie, First Bank of Nigeria Plc, 3303010231336, or call 08060658913 and 08136506718 for more details.
Culled from: Vanguard Newspaper
(We hope a lot of well-meaning Nigerians will see and respond to this)
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