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ADEBAYO FOLORUNHSO-FRANCIS
Published 14 March 2021
For most parents of children born with a hole in the heart (atrial septal defect), the greatest frustration is raising the required funds for corrective surgery to save the children. Some of the parents share their emotional stories of struggling to raise millions of naira to save their children.
ADEBAYO FOLORUNHSO-FRANCIS reports
When a civil servant with the Lagos State government, Wahab Abidemi Alao, received a distress call in 2020 that his nine-year-old daughter, Alimat, had fainted in school, he had no idea that it could be something serious.
On seeing the head teacher, Alao was told that Alimat had been rushed to Massey Street Children’s Hospital.