Our Reporter
A 31 year-old woman, Rasaq Sherifat Folashade is partially paralysed.
Her head, neck, brain, eyes, nose, mouth and tongue are active, while her arms and legs have lost total function.
Her mother, Rasaq Fatima is desperately seeking help to raise money for a crucial surgery that would save Folashade from going completely paralysed.
She has been the only source of support to her daughter since she lost her father last year due to the illness
Folashade was recently diagnosed of chronic typhoid and partial paralysis. However, N1 million is required for the treatment that will help make her body active again.
Mrs Rasaq, who hails from Osun State, told our reporter about her daughter’s ordeal, calling for help from well-meaning Nigerians.
She said the problem started on October 18 2017, two years after her daughter graduated from The Polytechnic, Ibadan.
According to her, Folashade woke up to find one of her legs paralysed. Months later, she could not eat, bath or do anything with her arms and legs due. Since then, she has been taking her from one place to another in quest for solution.
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“We had to take my daughter to Trauma Medical Centre, Ondo where she was diagnosed of having partial paralysis and admitted for some days before leaving there due to financial constraints that held us back.
“It was from there that we were referred to Federal Medical Centre, Owo to seek further medical treatments.
“We were told by the hospital that it would cost a minimum of N1 million to get her to normalcy. I am old while my husband is late. All our earnings and life savings went into her medical treatment. Folashade had to dispose her shop where she sells provision to pay some of the medical bills but all to no avail,” she said.
Rasaq said her husband’s family refused them access to the latter’s (late Rasaq) properties, which made things more difficult as they spent huge sums of money on drugs ever since.
She is appealing to well-meaning Nigerians to come to their aid and help save Folashade from the stroke, especially as the situation is making her blood pressure to be on the high side.
A breakdown of the cost as provided in a letter from Federal Medical Centre, showed that approximately N1 000 000 is required for the treatment and other incidental expenses.
Donations to save Folashade’s health condition can be paid into GTB Account No. 0034233857, Account Name: Rasaq Sherifat Folashade. For more details, call 08034742292.
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