Six-month-old David battles hole in the heart, seeks N3m for surgery

Six-month–old David Nasiru with hole in his heart

A team of doctors at the Paediatric Cardiology unit of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, has recommended an open-heart surgery for six-month–old David Nasiru, a native of Ondo State.

After clinical evaluation in LUTH, it was discovered that David has a symptomatic congenital heart disease and was referred to Babcock University Teaching Hospital IIishan-Remo Ogun State, for Diagnostic Cardiac Catheterization at an estimated bill of N3,000,000 to correct his heart defects and forestall irreversible life-threatening complications.

According to the boy’s mother, Mrs. Rachael Nasiru, the defect in the heart was discovered shortly after David was born and he was experiencing severe pains breathing, eating and sleeping. The family had taken him through Paediatric echocardiogram tests and is therefore appealing to the public for funds to save their son.

His details are First Bank, Nasiru Oluwamayowa David 3134986015. His mother can be reached on 08034633842.

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Five-month-old needs N3.5m for heart surgery

Published March 10, 2019

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Parents of a five-month-old boy have cried out to Nigerians for financial assistance to enable them to pay for the cost of a surgery that is required to correct his heart defect.

The boys’ parents, Oluwole Nasiru and Rachael Nasiru, who brought the baby (David Nasiru) to The PUNCH Place, the corporate headquarters of PUNCH on Thursday, told our correspondent that they would need between N3m and N3.5m to facilitate heart surgery for the boy.

The father, who works in a hospitality firm, and the 39-year-old mother, a petty trader, said David was diagnosed and found to have symptomatic congenital heart disease.

The diagnosis, they said, was carried out at the Paediatric Cardiology Unit of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital in January this year.

He said the family had been looking for help to enable the boy to undergo the surgery.

According to the father, the family took the boy to the hospital because of the way he was breathing very fast and sometimes gasping for breath.

He said, “When we noticed this, we took him to LUTH and he was diagnosed with heart disease. We bought a certain drug which we gave to him to make the breathing normal but the permanent solution is surgery.

“My wife and I are here to let the public know our plight and that they should help save the life of my boy. We need money; some said N5m was required while some said we would need about $15,000.”

The Consultant, Paediatrician/Paediatric Cardiologist at LUTH, Dr O. J. Sokunbi, in a letter of introduction dated January 14, 2019, confirmed that the five-month-old baby is a patient of the paediatric cardiology unit at the hospital.

The letter read in part, “Clinical evaluation indicated that David has symptomatic congenital heart disease, which was confirmed by echocardiography to be pentalogy of fallot (two small ostium secundum atrial septal defects shunting right to left, large-sized sub aortic ventricular septal defect shunting bi-directionally, with 50 per cent aortic override, severe infundibula, pulmonary valve and main pulmonary artery stenosis, left pulmonary artery stenosis with a right sided arch).

“David will require further cardiovascular evaluation and possible open-heart surgery to correct his heart defects in order to forestall irreversible and life-threatening complications.”

The parents said they were told that they would need between $15,000 and $20,000 to take the boy to India for the surgery.

However, when SUNDAY PUNCH contacted the Public Relations Officer of the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex, Ile Ife, Kemi Fasoto, she said the boy would need between N2.5m and N3m for the surgery at the hospital apart from the family’s travelling and personal expenses.

The family gave the bank details as First Bank Limited, with Account Name Nasiru Oluwamayowa David and Account Number 3134986015.
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In Abuja 130 orphans out in the cold as FCT demolishes orphanage

These are not the best of times for the owners of Divine Wounds of Jesus Christ, an 

orphanage and rehabilitation home situated near Liberty Hotels, Arab Road, Kubwa, Abuja, as the Department of Development Control, in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) administration unleashed bulldozers on the orphanage. By the time the bulldozers went off, about 130 orphans were left homeless.

When The Guardian visited the home on Friday, personal effects of the inmates, utensils and sundry belongings of the orphanage and its school were strewn across the entire plot of land, which hitherto housed the facility, while the orphans and their teachers clustered under trees writing their terminal examination.

Jointly established by Mr. Cyril Ezemoka, and his wife Victoria, as part of their contribution to the wellbeing of the society, the orphanage, which also serves as a school started operations in 2009, and was formally launched in 2011, with a staff strength of 50 workers, who ran two shifts weekly.

After the death of her husband in 2014, the management of the home fell squarely on Mrs. Victoria Ezemoka who serves as the founding mother/ proprietress.

Trouble started a few years ago when the younger brother to the deceased allegedly showed up and informed the widow that his late brother had officially transferred the property to him.

Expectedly, the claim led to litigations as both the proprietress and the deceased brother both laid claims to ownership of the property.

An eyewitness and a mechanic, who shares boundary with the facility, Mr. Onuora Oko, told The Guardian that the incident came as a surprise to all of them.

Oko said, “The FCDA people first came a few weeks ago to demolish a neighbour’s house close to this home and left, but we were very surprised when they came on Tuesday and started demolishing the orphanage. They even came from behind, broke the fence before they started the demolition. They went ahead to cease and smash mobile handsets of people that attempted to video what they were doing.”

One of the orphans, Joseph Dawaliu from Kaduna State, told The Guardian, “We are feeling very bad because since the demolition, our education has been affected as we were in the middle of examination. We are now writing our examinations under these trees as you can see. I am now a Primary 5 pupil in this school, if this problem is not solved, and a new school built for us, where do we go from here?”

An assistant to the director of the home, Mr. Victor Godwin informed The Guardian that “it was disheartening that the FCDA demolished this property without any prior notice. It is unheard of that government no longer abide by the Constitution because if it does, it ought to know that this matter is already before the courts. So, why has the government taken laws into its hands?

“You can see that the pupils are now writing their terminal exams under these trees. What our madam now does is to take these children to one of her private homes, which is far away from here to enable them sleep well, pending when solution comes. My worry is that our hostel has been destroyed; our classrooms, our computer laboratory, dinning hall, poultry have all been destroyed,” he lamented
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