GIVE LITTLE GODWIN A CHANCE TO LIVE.

Godwin Nna is 3 years old and he has been diagnosed of hydrocephalus (water in the head). He is in a constant battle to stay alive.
According to his father, Godspower Nna, the ailment has made the little boy to be retarded in growth. And to add to that, he doesn’t talk or walk.
Godspower, 26, lamented that the little boy had been taken to various hospitals when the ailment started in 2015 but there was no solution to the problem. He added that the family had spent a lot of money on drugs and operations but there hasn’t been any improvement as the head keeps swelling up.
At the age of one, little Godwin always had high temperature and was always crying. His family thought it was malaria,  gave him malaria drugs, but the problem persisted.
They later discovered that his head was swelling every day. So they took him to a teaching hospital where a series of tests were conducted on him and they were told that he was suffering from a disease called hydrocephalus.
The water that is supposed to go through his body was stored in the head and that was why the head was swelling up increasingly.
Little Godwin could undergo surgery and his family was asked to pay the sum of N600, 000 for the operation, which they did. They were told by the doctors there that the head would become normal after the operation but unfortunately it was not corrected.”
Godspower who works as a bar attendant in a hotel in Akure further stated that in search for solution to the ailment of his only child, somebody advised him to take the boy to the National Hospital, Abuja , where he went and he was asked to come with a sum of N800,000 for another surgery.
“But we have practically spent all we had when we went to the teaching hospital.  Since this sickness started, we have spent over N1m. There is no way we can afford anything else again. We are just begging well meaning Nigerians to help us so that my child doesn’t die.
“They told us that it is only the National Hospital, Abuja that tackles such a case successfully, so we took him there. They too also conducted tests on him and diagnosed hydrocephalus. They said we should come back for the operation with N800,000.  I could not go back to the hospital because there is no money again. That is why we are appealing to Nigerians to help us out. This is the only child I have and I don’t want him to die, the head is so heavy that you can’t carry him for five minutes; you will feel the pain because it makes him very heavy.”
The distraught father gave the account details Nna Blessing, 2082214074 United Bank for Africa, for Nigerians who wish to come to their aid.

Story: PUNCH