Group Sends “Save Our Soul” To Okowa Over Child With Mountainous Head Tumor

The group, Child Welfare Fund has sent a “Save Our Soul” message to the Delta State Government over the plight of an eight year old girl, Precious Moses, who has a mountainous tumor on her head.

The group also appealed to well meaning Nigerians to rescue the little girl from the pains she have been bearing for years.

Addressing newsmen in Warri, President of the Child Welfare Fund,  Mr. Joshua Omorere, said that the SOS became necessary as a last resort to save the teenager from dying as the tumor is already weighing her down.

He said that the surgery to be undergo by the girl would cost a total sum of One Million Six Hundred Thousand but that his organization has been able to raise the sum of One Million Naira.

He said effort to raise the balance Six Hundred Thousand Naira pushed him to call on Governor Ifeanyi Okowa led administration and Deltans in general to help in this direction.

Omorere said that the girl’s health deteriorated to its present state due to inability of her parent to raise money for the surgery as estimated by the management of Delta State University Teaching Hospital, DELSUTH, Otefe-Oghara.

He said that the child is presently lying helplessly at the Pediatric Ward 2, Bed 2 at the Delta State Teaching Hospital (DELSUTH), Oghara.

“I am begging the Delta State Government to save this young girl from dying. The Government should help us raise this money so that her parents can pay for her medical bills. We are also looking for 14 people to donate fresh blood on the day of the tumor operation. Please Nigerians, help this young girl.”

Omorere stated that the girl who usually teaches her mates stopped going to school because she was being mocked and stigmatized by her classmates.

He also called for fourteen volunteers that would donate fresh blood on the day the operation would be carry out as recommended by a team of surgeons waiting for her family to raise the needed fund for operation.

In the same vein, mother of the girl, Mrs. Juliet Ekeh said the tumor at the back of her daughter started like a small boil which was treated only for it to start growing abnormally stressing, “it is gradually spreading to other parts of her body”.

Mrs. Ekeh said she has spent the little she had financially just as she begged the Delta State Government to help save the life of her daughter by raising the six hundred thousand naira.

Ekeh who is resides at Orhuwhorhun in Udu Local Government Area also appealed to Nigerians to help donate fresh blood for the successful tumor operation of her daughter.

Precious Moses