A 3-year-old girl, Teniola
Bashorun, needs N3 million for heart surgery in India.
This little girl is lying critically ill at the Paediatric Ward, Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja, Teniola was 3-month old when she was diagnosed with a ‘complex cyanotic heart disease pentalogy of fallot’. Other clinical evaluation shows features of Turner’s syndrome.
This little girl is lying critically ill at the Paediatric Ward, Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja, Teniola was 3-month old when she was diagnosed with a ‘complex cyanotic heart disease pentalogy of fallot’. Other clinical evaluation shows features of Turner’s syndrome.
According to a medical
report dated February 18, 2014, signed by Dr. E. N. Ekure, a consultant
paediatric cardiologist, states that the patient requires a cardiac surgery to
enable her to survive and have a better quality of life. The report reads in
part: “This letter serves as an introduction of the patient for assistance that
will facilitate surgical intervention.
From cardiovascular
standpoint, Teniola requires medical management and cardiac surgery to live and
have a better life.” The baby’s father, Mr. Felix Bashorun, a teacher in a
private school in Lagos, said the family had incurred debt because he couldn’t
go to work regularly again owing to Teniola’s condition.
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