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| Ms.Onyinyechi Okafor |
Little ONYINYECHI
Mary-Colette Okafor who is only 14yrs old is no celebrity, many of us don't know her but she surely needs her people and the world to come to her aid when her life is at stake but only Five Million naira (N5m) is needed to save her life.
Obiageli is the third of five children born to Aloysious and Grace
Okafor of 34, Osho Drive, Olodi-Apapa in Lagos, has sent a distress call to the
Anambra State Governor, Peter Obi, and all well-meaning Nigerians at home and
abroad, for assistance to raise N5 million to undergo an urgent life-saving
brain surgery.
Onyinyechi, who hails from Utuh, in Nnewi South LGA of Anambra
State, is on admission in Ward D3 of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital,
LUTH, Idi Araba, Lagos after diagnosis of a rare and aggressive form of
brain tumour known as Brain Stem Glioma.
Making
the call to Governor Obi through her paternal aunt, Ms. Obiageli Ulasi, ailing
Onyinyechi, who although has been receiving palliative care at LUTH, is yet
unable to speak, walk, stand or function normally, is praying the
Governor assistance to raise the N5 million in order to have access to adequate
treatment and care in an Indian hospital.
As reported on Vanguard Nigeria, ''Until
April 27, 2013 when her world turned upside down, Onyinyechi was a healthy
and intelligent 14-year-old JSS 2 student of Ajeromi/Ifelodun High
School, Lagos.
Today, she has stopped school and no longer
attends Church or partakes of other normal activities like her contemporaries.
The entire left side of her body is paralysed and she is separated from her
family and friends and has become a permanent resident in the hospital''.
Her family barely managing to pay the huge hospital
bills. Worse still, Onyinyechi’s father, a trader, is also
indisposed. Onyinyechi’s only hope is to be flown abroad for better
medical outcome.
The proposed treatment is at a Hospital in India, which has assessed her case and given a
breakdown of treatment expenses to the tune of N5 million since Nigeria being the giant of Africa has no good equipped hospital to cater for it's own . The Five million naira would cover
surgery, drugs, transportation, and accommodation for six weeks for Onyinyechi
and her mother who would accompany her.
According to the report, the hospital is ready to commence
treatment but financial constraint is hampering the process.
