2-year-old Needs N2.8m For Surgery After Diagnosis Showed A Hole In His Heart

Muhammed Lawal
Muhammed Lawal

Two-year-old Muhammed Lawal may die in two weeks if nothing is done to salvage the situation, as he has been diagnosed with a hole in the heart. He needs N2.8 million for an urgent surgical operation to correct the defect.

According to doctors at the Bicket Medical Centre, Osogbo, Osun State, the boy has two weeks to live unless something urgent is done to save him. After a series of diagnosis, the doctors said he might not survive unless his parents raised N2.8 million needed for the heart surgery in India.

The concerted effort of his parents has only yielded N5,000.

Father of the boy, Lawal Musa who was a former cadet member of the Osun Youth Empowerment Scheme, OYES, has appealed to well meaning Nigerians to help save his son’s life.

“We have tried and we are still making efforts. We could only raise N5,000. We are calling on well meaning Nigerians to help us save him through their financial assistance. We pray they will not have any cause to bury their child,” he said.

He added that he had made several appeals to some well meaning Nigerians in Osun State to come to his aid but it turned out futile as the condition of his little son worsens daily.

According to Lawal, he earns N10, 000 at a private Nursery and Primary School in Oshogbo where he teaches Primary 4 to JSS II. He said he had written letters to the state Governor Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola and Osun State House of Assembly but he has not gotten a favourable response yet.

Speaking on the boy’s state of health, Dr A. D. Adenle, Medical Director, Bicket Medial Centre, a Cardiac Consultation Centre based in Oshogbo, and one the experts who diagnosed Lawal, said, “there is situs solitus, antrio-ventricular and ventrioculo-arterial concordance. The colour-flow showed the VSD. There is also mosaic colour jet across the infundibulum and pulmonary valve.”

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  1. Pls our rich pple in nig help rise the amount for this little boy. If he was cured today, tomorrow he may be the one that will bring changes to nig. Only one rich person with kind heart can donate all the money. Save the child pls……….