Okowa gets SOS appeal over 8-year old girl

A group under the auspices of Child Welfare Fund, yesterday, June 18 sent a "Save Our Soul" messge to the Delta State Government and we'll meaning Nigerians to the rescue an eight year old girl, Miss Precious Moses, with the sum of  six hundred thousand naira to enable her undergo surgical operation to remove a mountainous tumor on her head.

The group moved by pathetic health condition of Miss Precious,  also called for fourteen volunteers that would donate fresh blood on the day the operation as recommended by a team of surgeons waiting for her family  to raise the needed fund for operation.

Speaking at the Secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Warri Correspondents' Chapel, the President of the Child Welfare Fund,  Mr. Joshua Omorere, the SOS call was the last resort to save Precious from dying as the turmor is already weighing her down.

Omorere stated that the girl's health deteriorated to this level due to  poverty, stressing that her parents could not afford the estimated one million six hundred thousand naira medical bills given o them by the Delta State University Teaching Hospital, DELSUTH,-    Otefe-Oghara.

He explained that Precious bill for the operation was at a total sum of One Million Six Hundred Thousand but that his organization has been able to raise the sum of One Million Naira. According to him, 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.

Speaking further on behalf of Miss Precious  who is presently lying helplessly at the Pediatric Ward 2, Bed 2 at the Delta State Teaching Hospital (DELSUTH),  Otefe-Oghara,

 In his words, "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."

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

Narrating her ordeal, the Mother of girl, Mrs. Juliet Ekeh said the tumor at the back of the girl started like a small boil which was treated only for it to start growing abnormally stressing that,"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.

Mrs. Ekeh who is resident at Orhunwhorhun in Udu Local Government Area is also begging Nigerians to help donate fresh blood for the successful tumor operation of her daughter.

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