Sickness and death is indeed a respecter of nobody, status, gender or age. If not, little Chibuike Paul Okafor of Amaifeke in Orlu LGA Imo state would have not been passing through the type of agony ravaging him at his tender and innocent age.
The 6year old Chibuike was sometime ago diagnosed of eye tumor/cancer at the Lagos Teaching Hospital (LUTH) , an ailment that is presently tearing the little innocent boy’s face like a ravaging hurricane. It started from left eye and later extended to the month and nose, making eating and life in general very difficult for Chibuike. He was given fifteen days to live by medical doctors, but the time as elapsed.
Medical experts in the University Teaching Hospital (UNTH) Enugu has advised that the only option to save little Chibuike life is to fly him to India for a surgical operation which is estimated to gulp not less than three million Naira (N3m) and so far not up to 10% of the said amount has been realized for the trip although the international passports was done and delivered by the Nigeria Immigration Services (NIS) within a record time of 24hrs in order to contribute their quota in saving the life of poor innocent Chibuike whose sight will send pity and compassion into the spines of even the conscienceless and the heartless.
Narrating his son’s ordeal to Imo Trumpeta, the father of the embattled Chibuike Paul Okafor who is a bus driver, whose wife is a petty trader, revealed that, it was one fateful morning sometime in January 2011 that he noticed that the left eye of his son had a shifted position, which made him take the boy to an optical service hospital in Orlu.
He disclosed that his son underwent treatment there for sometime with the cause not being diagnosed, Mr Okafor (Snr) went further to reveal how they were referred to one Egyptian who is based in Aba Abia state, who also offered his own services to no avail.
In search of solution and cure for their only son’s ailment their ship anchored at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC) and General Hospital Umuguma all in Owerri Imo state, with several weeks of visitations and treatment, yet neither the cause nor any solution was proffered. The boy was referred to an Eye Foundation Hospital in Ikeja Lagos, from where they were referred to Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH).
It was at LUTH, that the ailment was diagnosed to be tumor/cancer of the eye before Chibuike was referred to University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH) Enugu for a affordable accessibility since the parents live in Imo state.
The treatments and haemothrapy, received in UNTH showed a sign of improvement for two weeks but what followed after the two weeks was a shocking rapid growth of the tumor which resulted in the removal of the boy’s damaged/infected left eye in a surgical operation. This operation again seems a respite of hope, only to escalating again after two weeks to what is shown in the picture.
However, the family and an NGO Championing the course to save Chibuike’s life, Every Child Educational Advancement Foundation (ECEAF) are soliciting the help of all to contribute in saving Master Chibuike Paul Okafor’s life by donating toward his oversea operation trip through these account details; name: Mr Obinna Okafor, Acc no: 1016624879(local), 00118878 (Domiciliary) Bank: UBA or call the father on 08109501390.
The fear of the parents of Chibuike is that Medical Experts had previously given Chibuike a few weeks to live, but by God’s decree, the young but suffering chap is still living. Therefore your quick intervention is needed to save this life.
