Sule Aliyu Bauchi
The family of 17-year-old girl Hannah Adesanya is appealing for financial aid to enable their daughter undergo surgery at the Abubakar’Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital, Abuja
The teenage girl, Hannah Adesanya is was diagnosed with a life threatening tumor on her left jaw is appealing to well-meaning Nigeria to save her life with the sum of N500,000 for medical procedure.
A lead consultant handling the treatment, Doctor Taye Toni of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital, ATBUTH, who first handled Hannah’s case, said the tumor has to be removed to avoid further degeneration to her brain.
Toni, who disclosed this via telephone interview advised that in removing the affected bone, it has to be a major surgery, adding that the affected bone would be removed and replaced with an implant; “something like an iron. The iron will be put there to help form a new bone,” he explained
The patient has been referred to a centre in Gombe for the surgical operation, billed for Tuesday May 7, 2024.
Copy of the medical report from the hospital
However, Miss Adesanya’s mother, Remi, said she has been a single mother since her husband abandoned the family when Hannah was just three years old. Remi’s financial strength, according to her, could not cater for the surgery and has sought Nigerians’ help to save her daughter’s life.
She said: “When I noticed that the left part of her face around her jaw was swollen, I initially thought that it was tooth pain. It appeared like a boil but my sister suggested that we rush her to hospital as the pain was getting worse. I first took her to the Specialist Hospital, Bauchi where an x-ray was done and she was referred to ATBUTH.
Hannah Adesanya, patient girl
“After examining her, the doctor expressed surprise and called his colleagues. They came to see and they too were surprised and the doctor asked me to go back to the Specialist hospital to do a CT scan.
“The result was brought back to the doctor who reported that she has no left cheek bone and surgery, which will cost N500, 000 is required to correct it.
“I don’t even have N15, 000 but the doctors explained that the surgery has to be done because it can affect my daughter’s brain. I am appealing to well-meaning Nigerians and organisations to come to my aid to save my daughter’s life”
Adesanya can be reached via: 08169911648 and donation can be done through her mother’s First Bank: 3049305305 –Remi Adesanya.