Indigent parents in Ikare-Akoko in Akoko North East Local Government Area of Ondo State, Mr and Mrs Saliu Adeyemi, have appealed to the government, corporate bodies and spirited individuals to help them save the life of their eight-year-old daughter, Saidat Abimbola.
Saidat, a primary two pupil of Cornerstone Nursery and Primary School, Ikare-Akoko, in October 2012, according to the Medical Director of Comprehensive Medical Centre, Iwase, Oka- Akoko, Ondo State, Dr E. A. Olorunfemi, developed signs and symptoms of heart disease when she was three years old.
These signs, Olorunfemi stated, made the hospital authorities to refer her case to a cardiologist who carried out some investigations on her and discovered that the girl had congenital heart disease.
The October 2012 health report of the little Saidat made her father and mother, who are peasant farmer and petty trader, to take her case to Kanu Heart Foundation. Noting that Saidat is from an indigent family that can hardly afford to buy even basic palliative drugs for the girl, the foundation in November of the same year launched an appeal to save her life.
The foundation, according to an SOS letter from the parents, said Saidat’s condition required the absence of the requisite medical facilities for “this high” risk surgery in Nigeria. As at the time the appeal was launched, the foundation sought to raise N1,632,000 to subsidise the cost of treatment, accommodation, transportation and feeding throughout the duration of her stay overseas.
Unfortunately, the appeal did not yield the desired result as the parents could not raise N800,000 which was about 50 per cent of the money required for the surgery. Ironically, the family, which could not raise more than N800, 000 in 2012, has now been told to urgently look for N2.6 million for the girl to live due to the deteriorating condition of her health and the rate of inflation.
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