Funmilayo and her baby
The mother of a 10-month-old baby has cried for
help from Nigerians in order for the baby to see with his two eyes.
The mother of the baby, Funmilayo Oladiran, told
our correspondent in Osogbo on Thursday that doctors had told her that the baby,
Sodiq, might lose his two eyes if something urgent was not done to correct the
defect in the eye which was increasingly bulging out of its socket due to
cataract.
Funmilayo, who is from Ejigbo in Osun State, said
she was a petty trader and that her husband and herself had no one to turn to
for help.
Funmilayo added that all the efforts they had
made to raise money for the baby’s treatment had been futile while calling on
Nigerians to help them.
She said, “One of his eyes is bulging out and he
cannot see with the eye. Sodiq is 10 months old and this started not long after
I gave birth to him.
“We took him to LAUTECH Teaching Hospital,
Osogbo. Two surgeries were carried out on him but I was told that there remains
an operation to be carried out to stop the cataract from spreading to the other
eye and for him to see.
“I don’t want him to go blind but I don’t have
money to go for any treatment again. That is why I am calling on anybody who can
assist us to save my baby from blindness.
“We need financial assistance to enable us take
him to a hospital for further treatment. I will be happy if Nigerians can just
help to make my baby to see well again.”
The mother said that there was no history of eye
problem in neither her family nor her husband’s family.
http://www.punchng.com/metro-plus/baby-risks-permanent-blindness-says-mother/
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