Family seeks N20m for daughter’s heart surgery

By Abduhmeed Oladejo

For the Olajide household of Akure, Ondo State, beingness has been an endless conflict since doctors discovered a superior bosom defect successful their one-year-old daughter, Iremide Exalted Olajide. Now, they are appealing to kind-hearted Nigerians for fiscal enactment to rise N20 cardinal needed for life-saving country successful India.

Iremide’s ordeal began astatine the Mother and Child Hospital wherever doctors detected an antithetic bosom murmur. Further tests astatine the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Owo, confirmed suspicions of a superior bosom defect.

A elaborate aesculapian valuation carried retired astatine the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital (OAUTH), Ile-Ife, by Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist, Dr B.S. Adeyefa, revealed that the small miss suffers from transposition of the large arteries—a information wherever the aorta and pulmonary arteries are abnormally positioned, alongside ample septal defects.

Her mother, Mrs Dolapo Aderonke Olajide, recalled her devastation aft learning the afloat grade of her daughter’s condition. “They told america her arteries were murmuring and that her bosom had ample defects. I was shattered,” she said.

Initially, country astatine OAUTH was estimated astatine N7 cardinal aboriginal this year, but the household could not rise the funds. When the lawsuit was referred abroad, Fortis Hospitals successful India enactment the full outgo of country and related attraction astatine N20 million.

For Mrs Olajide, a schoolroom teacher successful Ondo State earning N45,000 monthly, the sum is simply intolerable to raise. “Even if I prevention my full wage for 20 years, I won’t beryllium capable to spend this surgery. That is wherefore I americium crying retired for help,” she lamented.

With the encouragement of friends and aesculapian contacts, the household has present reached retired to the Gifting Volunteer Network, a non-profit organisation that helps patients rise captious funds.

Olajide is appealing to Nigerians to travel to their aid, saying she believes her daughter’s name, Iremide—which means assistance america to reconstruct this glory—will 1 time beryllium fulfilled.

“I person not known bid since her birthday. Every day, I ticker her struggle, and we bash what small we can. I commune Nigerians volition perceive our outcry and assistance america prevention her life,” she pleaded.

Donations tin beryllium made to: Zenith Bank. Account Name: Iremide Exalted Olajide Account Number: 2054711831. The household tin besides beryllium reached connected 0806 380 3386.

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