…As Woman Cries Out For Help Says, “I Cannot Carry This Cross Alone”
A teacher with a private primary school in Enugu metropolis, Mrs Grace Sharon Chijoke has cried to members of the public to come to her aid to save one of her children, Master Chidubem Emmanuel Chijoke from dying of an ailment.
Her agony is that Chidubem, 11, was born with a malformed scrotum which medical experts call Bladder Extrophy that made him to be passing urine uncontrollably since October 24, 2013 and thus has been wearing Pampers (diapers) like a baby.
As a result of the bladder issue, Chidubem is billed to undergo six different operations, surgeries, before he will be able to urinate like a normal human being and four different surgeries have been performed already leaving out two; bladder neck connection and another in medical parlance called, hypospadias to enable him make use of his penis.
Already the family had spent over N8 million for the surgies and for the continuous purchase of diapers but the remaining two to three operations would cost about another N8 million or thereabout because the last time they did the surgery, doctors at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, UNTH billed them N6 million.
The worst of it all is that what prompted Mrs Chijoke to cry out for help is that her husband, Mr. Chijoke Emmanuel, a Keke driver abandoned her and her three children and vanished into thin air, not even a phone call or money for upkeep. According to her, her husband said he was going to the North to make money but never knew that he was abandoning them because he could not cope with the family needs especially with Chidubem’s case.
“I have been bearing this alone for two years now that my husband abandoned us and absconded to only God knows where. Chidubem will be going to the Secondary School any moment from now and how he will be going about on diapers,” she laments.
She said that she has sought help from relatives, friends and well-wishers to no avail and the option left for her is to cry out so that “anybody anywhere can come and help me.”
The lady who lives at No. 15 Ekwulobia Street, Garriki area of Enugu South local government area but hails from Ekerefi, Nkanu East local government area of Enugu State, has this to say: “I am teacher with Divtresh School, Enugu. Chidubem was born 11 years ago while his elder sister was born 13 years ago, and his younger brother is about six now. I can no longer cope. My husband, Chijoke, a Keke driver left us two years ago because of family problems.”
For those who might wish to come to her aid for her son’s predicament, she put out a phone number and an account number: Account name: Grace Sharon Chijoke; Fidelity Bank: 6161628474, while her phone number which is her WhatsApp number is, 08148479789.
