17-month-old needs N1m for surgery on multiple heart holes | The Guardian Nigeria News

17-MONTH-OLD baby girl, Ochoche-Samuel Mofeoluwa, is desperately in need of N1 million for open-heart surgery for multiple holes in the heart.
Baby Mofeoluwa was diagnosed with this heart defect (including a large-sized heart) at six months old.
 
The medical report from Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), signed by Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist, Dr. O. J. Sokunbi, showed that the baby has symptomatic congenital heart disease.  
 
Narrating her ordeal, the distraught mother, Folakemi Ogunsusi, said: “I had her on April 17, 2022.  
 
“Since her birth, she has been breathing fast, constantly sleeping and not eating well. She doesn’t cry out loud. It was last September when she started running a fever that the condition was discovered.”
 
Ogunsusi, 24, and a single mum, said she took her baby to Randle Hospital in Lagos, where the doctor discovered she wasn’t breathing well. 
 She emphasised: “The doctor admitted her immediately that day, and placed her on oxygen for a month. The hospital advised us to do an x-ray. 
   
“Upon getting the result, they discovered she has a large heart. Immediately, the doctor placed her on heart medications. After a month, the hospital referred us to a cardiologist at LUTH.
 
“After a series of examinations and tests, she was placed on oxygen at LUTH, where she spent a week and a half. 
“I’m a teacher. I earn N25,000 monthly. I won’t be able to meet up savings, even if I save my entire salary for three years. I don’t want to lose my child,” she lamented.
 
“Mofeoluwa is only a year and five months old now. She isn’t growing, she isn’t crawling or walking. I never thought I would have a child with this kind of health issue,” decried Folakemi, a devastated young mum, who got pregnant through a rape incident.
 
Through a Not-For-Profit organisation, Gifting Volunteer Network (GVN), the mother has called on the public to save her daughter. When contacted, President of GVN, Mr. Belele David Tamarau-kuro, said Mofeoluwa was among many critical cases his organisation has helped through public intervention
 
To save Mofeoluwa, assistance can be extended to Account Number- 0874785042. Name- Grace Mofeoluwa Ochoche- Samuel. Bank- GTB, phone number- 0806 733 7691.