NCoS officer seeks N94m for daughter’s surgery
A 43-year-old man, Oluwafemi Olasoji, has cried out for help over one of his twin daughters who was diagnosed with a heart condition two months after her birth.
Olasoji, who hails from Osun State, said his daughter, Taiwo, started experiencing shortness of breath when she was two months old before it was discovered that there was a hole in her heart in 2014.
During an interview with City Round, Olasoji, an officer of the Nigeria Correctional Service, said the family needed €62,700 (N94m) for his daughter, now 10, to undergo a second surgery.
He said life had been unbearable for Taye who had been breathing through a vape since the first surgery in Germany in 2014.
“In 2014 when we gave birth to her, whenever she wanted to be breastfed, she would be forced. She would suckle a little and gasp for air to gain more strength before she could continue suckling. She started looking pale. One night, we had to rush her to Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, but at that time, they were on strike.
“We then took her to a private hospital where they gave her oxygen. The next morning, the consultant discovered she had a hole in the heart. We had to take her back to LUTH because of the private bill of the hospital. It was at LUTH that the examiner told us that we had to do a quick surgery for her,” he said.
The father of three said the family was advised to travel to Germany where the surgery was successfully done the first time.
He said, “€62,700 is needed for the surgery. The surgery has to do with a small hole vape that will be connected to her heart. When she was small, they had to use the smaller one then, but now that she’s old, they have to change it.”
City Round, however, learnt that the family was asked to return for a second surgery when Taiwo was seven years old.
Olasoji said, “We were told to come back at the age of seven or eight. Since then, we have been looking for money to go back to Germany to do the second surgery. Since 2014, we are still on it. She is 10 years old now.
“After her first surgery, she has been breathing with a vape that was linked to her heart. She used a smaller one then, but now that she’s old, we had to change it.”
According to a medical report issued by the hospital and sighted by our correspondent, Taiwo was diagnosed with a cyanotic congenital heart disease which is a heart condition that occurs at birth and reduces the quantity of oxygen delivered to the body.
Olasoji appealed to Nigerians to come to his aid by raising funds needed to perform his daughter’s surgery.
He said, “I am begging the people of Nigeria to help me save her life because I have tried all my possible best to raise money. Even the money raised so far is not close to what will help her to the place (Germany). The surgery cannot be done in Nigeria; it has to be done in Germany.”
Donations can be made to his Guaranty Trust Bank account number, 0423084112, with the name, Olasoji Oluwafemi.
