A 39-year-old woman Mrs Ujuka Ifediba, involved in a container lorry accident along the Mile 2 Badagry expressway, Lagos has appealed for financial assistance from spirited individuals and organisations to enable her return to normal life again.
Ifediba, a native of Umuoji, Idemili North of Anambra State, said she needed the sum of N1.6 million to offset her bill for the corrective surgery.
The patient had narrowly escaped death on September 6, 2017 when the container fell off a truck and descended on her waist and lower part of her body at Agric Bus Stop area of the state.
Describing her survival as divine, Ifediba recounted how a man who was beside her died instantly under the container, noting that the trauma of the accident were yet to leave her.
“I was receiving treatment at a traditional bone setting home before I was moved to the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital (COOUTH), Awka last year.” she said.
According to her, she had undergone several surgeries for treatment of the wound, but added that the actual corrective surgery for the fractures was yet to be done.
“I have been a burden to my husband and widowed mother as family members have spent a lot of money on my predicament.
“I have not received medical attention in the hospital for more than two months due to my inability to pay the N1.6 million bill for the corrective surgery,” she narrated soberly.
Ifediba however revealed that she was asked to leave the hospital following ongoing strike by doctors in the hospital, but not until she had offset over N1,044, 775 accumulated bill.
Medical report from COOUTH signed by Dr Ifeanyi Ezeobi, a Consultant Orthopedic Surgeon, revealed that Ifediba was admitted in the hospital on May 28, 2018 and had been under a combined team of orthopedic and plastic surgeons.
“She was a victim of road traffic accident and sustained multiple fractures to the pelvis and lower limbs.
“Initial management was by traditional bone setters in Lagos leading to pressure sores at the gluteal and back of the knees and hips with stiffness of the joint.
“She has undergone series of surgical interventions to heal the pressure sores while still awaiting definitive treatment of the fractures which will come when the pressure ulcers are healed.
“The estimated cost of the definitive treatment for the fractures is put at N1.6 million, this includes the cost of surgeries, additional hospital stay and rehabilitation,” it stated.
Ifediba currently lying helpless at the deserted female surgical ward with her mother on her bedside can be contacted through this phone number – 081 616 758 02.
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