A fellow patient lent us N30,000 for dialysis, says mother of 12-year-old girl battling kidney failure
Published 12:22 am
For Mrs. Ezinne Oliver, nothing is more traumatising than tending to her 12-year-old daughter,Chisom Oliver, who is battling kidney failure. Chisom, who has been hospitalised since January at the Paediatric Unit of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital,needs regular dialysis not just to stay alive but to be free of painpending the time her widowed mother could afford the N10m needed for a kidney transplant. YUSUFF MOSHOOD reports
Two years ago when Chisom suddenly developed dark spots all over her body, the initial thought of her mother, Mrs. Ezinne Oliver, was that she had an allergic reaction to something. She went to the chemist, bought some medication, and treated her at home.